Austin's Goodwill Compter Works is excellent, and there are several other computer recycle / resale operations, as you'd expect in a university town. http://www.austincomputerwork…

Leave him negative feedback. The item is not as described. As-is is something different than the description.

Stop using that word "RARE"! :beige: My recommendation is not to use that RAM upgrade board. It looks like the PSU is the intact original first generation as well. It still has…

I must be the unluckiest guy when it comes to LCs. Man did I get burned on this motherboard. It was not new. It was not sealed. It does not work. > Looks like it…

I like the trackball better, too. Apple was inconsistent in where they silk screened the model number. 210s-270s usually had it on the bottom of the LCD panel, 280s & 2300s…

I've seen a bad PRAM battery do something similar.

I tried Preview, but didn't see the resize options. Blind I guess. Click to expand... Sorry. In Preview, Tools menu, Adjust Size...

Your Mac shows 512K because it has the original 64K ROMs most likely. You actually have 1.5MB of RAM installed, it looks like. The mobo RAM chips have probably been replaced upgrad…

Apple never really wanted to release the PowerDuo, but they'd promised all Duo owners a PPC upgrade path. I've got a lot of Duo parts, some of the, presumably, upgrade decks have s…

Someone has obviously popped the top plastics from the earlier series on it, either because the 2300c's plastics were bad, the trackpad broken, or because the whole PowerBook track…

I like the 2300's. I used one back in high school for a bit. Even dragged it with me backpacking in Mexico.

My 8600/300s (two) are a bit odd in that they will refuse to reboot to the order of the three finger salute. You have to manually shut down if it crashes by pressing the green powe…

I go to the Salvation Army store to look for computers. I haven't found anything interesting enough to buy yet, but I still look. Goodwill never has computers in the stores but the…

Where do you get that 512Ke discontinued date? It all depends on which schools you're talking about. Jobs made education sales a priority, especially after the first 6 months when…

They're owned by the city/regional councils, who run the garbage tips. They're actually at the garbage tip. Anyway, that Goodwill sounds great...you'd never see anything like that…

I was going to guess that a "tip shop" was like a thrift store, but this sounds a bit different. Are they actually owned by the garbage companies? As far as Goodwill, if you want …

jt: a "tip shop" is a shop at the garbage tip (or dump) where they sell stuff that they think is saleable. Things like electrical items, books, CDs/DVDs/videos/cassettes, furniture…

Another thing to consider is that the 512Ke is not actually marked as "enhanced" or "e" on its nameplate. The only surefire ways to know if it's enhanced (originally or not) are to…

Mine is definitely a 2300c, not an upgraded model. The screen size measures 9.5" and the sticker on the bottom of the case reads, "Macintosh PowerBook Duo 2300 Series".

Rodus When you install a CPU upgrade you have to pull the old card, press the reset button, THEN install the new CPU. I had that problem with my G4 1000 upgrade. My 7500 wouldn't …

Nice lappie. Calm before the storm...

I know he doesn't care about the historical accuracy of the listing, it's just fun to mess with people sometimes. } :lol:

Interesting note about my 2300c is that it has a trackball instead of a trackpad. It was like this when I purchased it, so I'm not sure of the history, whether the wristrest or tra…

8-o That's amazing! BTW, what the heck is a "Tip Shop" anyway? :?: Goodwill has stopped accepting computers in NC, which is bad enough, but when I stopped at one in NJ,…

Maybe someone should buy it put a small deposit down, then say they want to do local pickup and then set the seller straight. I agree on reporting the item.