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Congratulations, you just missed the entire point of having a 68k Mac Liberation Army.
Well... I was kind of being sarcastic, with all this forced obsolescence Apple has been shoving in our faces lately and all. As I read somewhere, a computer is not obsolete until it can no longer fulfill the user's needs.
In fact, this machine is far from obsolete in my opinion! I am using it now, and It seems a bit slow on the Internet, but I think it's handling it quite well (I haven't tried YouTube or anything yet, though). I am running Leopard, and it seems quite sluggish at times (probably due to the old and slow 4200 RPM, 40 GB hard drive I salvaged from somewhere, and only having 512 MB RAM which was salvaged from somewhere else). I will have to source newer, faster replacements for cheap, because I don't want to put more than $300 into it (my estimate of it's worth, based on looking at various sites offering comparable machines for sale). I've only put ~$25 into it so far, so I have plenty of room!

I have most of the pieces of a 1.5 GHz 17" which I'd like to fix up and keep for myself, while selling the 1.33 GHz off for a reasonable price.

I might post it here, but I haven't decided yet. If I do, would anybody here buy it for $250-$300?

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