Hi there
Is there anyone out there that has had any experience buying a refurbished Mac.If so,R they as good as they sound?If they r as good as they sound.Any idea on were i may find the best deal on one.O one more thing.What do u think of this spec and price?
Technical Specifications:
Processing and memory
Dual 1.25GHz PowerPC G4 processors
Velocity Engine vector processing unit
Full 128-bit internal memory data paths
Powerful floating-point unit supporting single-cycle, double-precision calculations
Data stream pre-fetching operations supporting four simultaneous 32-bit data streams
256K on-chip L2 cache running at processor speed
1MB DDR SRAM L3 cache per processor
Up to 167MHz system bus supporting over 1.3Gbps data throughput
256MB of PC2700 (333MHz) DDR SDRAM
Four DIMM slots supporting up to 2GB of DDR SDRAM using one of the following:
- 256MB DIMMs (64-bit-wide, 128 or 256 Mbit)
- 512MB DIMMs (64-bit-wide, 256 Mbit)
Graphics and display support
The following graphics card is installed in a dedicated AGP 4X graphics slot:
- ATI Radeon 9000 Pro graphics card with 64MB of DDR SDRAM
Support for digital resolutions up to 1920-by-1200 pixels and analogue resolutions up to 1600-by-1200 pixels
ADC and DVI connectors; DVI to VGA adaptor included
Dual display support for extended desktop and video mirroring modes
Support for up to two Apple displays
Communications
10/100/1000BASE-T Ethernet connector (RJ-45)
Built-in antennae and expansion slot for optional 54Mbps AirPort Extreme Card (based on 802.11g draft specification; IEEE 802.11b Wi-Fi certified)
Optional Bluetooth 1.1 module
Built-in 56K v.92 modem
Storage and expansion
Four 3.5-inch hard drive expansion bays:
- One 80GB 7200-rpm Ultra ATA/100 drive preinstalled
- Support for up to four internal ATA drives (two Ultra ATA/100 and two Ultra ATA/66)
- Support for up to four internal SCSI drives (requires third-party solution not offered by Apple)
- Support for a combination of internal SCSI and ATA drives (total of four)
with the following optical drive preinstalled:
- Combo drive (DVD-ROM/CD-RW); reads DVDs at 12x speed, writes CD-R discs at 32x speed, writes CD-RW discs at 10x speed, reads CDs at 32x speed
Four open, full-length 64-bit, 33MHz PCI slots
One AGP 4X slot with graphics card installed
Peripherals and audio
One FireWire 800 port and two FireWire 400 ports (15W total power)
Four USB ports (two on system, two on keyboard)
Front headphone jack
Built-in speaker
Stereo audio line in and line out minijacks
Apple speaker minijack for connection to optional Apple Pro Speakers
Electrical and environmental requirements
Meets ENERGY STAR requirements
Line voltage: 100V-125V AC or 200V-240V AC
Frequency: 50Hz to 60Hz, single phase
Maximum current: 6.5A (low voltage range) or 7.5A (high voltage range)
Operating temperature: 50° to 95° F (10° to 35° C)
Storage temperature: -40° to 116° F (-40° to 47° C)
Relative humidity: 5% to 95% non-condensing
Maximum altitude: 10,000 feet
£1099.00 ex vat (£1291.33 inc vat) and that is $2,055.67 United States Dollars.
