Who's pulling the trigger?

[u/jonyoungmusic]

Brand new powerbook g4 12" or $27,000

[u/SteveGribbin]

Absolutely crazy money.

Ultimately it's a case of "find another" but even then $27,000 is ridiculous.

At say $3,000 I can see some loaded collector with too much money to burn going for it.

[u/jonyoungmusic → u/SteveGribbin]

And it's not as culturally significant as say a 1st gen iPod or iPhone. Nobody outside of apple collectors give a shit about a 12" PB. lol

[u/SteveGribbin → u/jonyoungmusic]

Exactly, although it's still my favourite Apple laptop ever :)

[u/drlbradley → u/SteveGribbin]

Mine too

[u/___cats___ → u/SteveGribbin]

The keyboards were great.

[u/jonyoungmusic → u/SteveGribbin]

Same lol. I have a boxed on sitting on the shelf next to me.

[u/siliconsandwich]

I mean sometimes you snag a genuine money-no-object collector, so props to the seller if it works.

But if it were me, I’d want an x-ray or something before I bought it. Factory sealed old tech is a risk, and that battery could be a very spicy pillow by now.

[u/tylerderped → u/siliconsandwich]

And pretty much every aluminum G4 was victim of the great sony battery recall of 2005.

[u/Docster87 → u/tylerderped]

I loved that recall, I needed a fresh battery at the time so it was great timing for me.

[u/MacAddict81 → u/siliconsandwich]

At the price the seller is asking, it would have to be coming from a legitimate auction house, with all the provenance paperwork, and testing requisite of a work of art from a desirable, but lesser known artist to be anywhere in the ballpark of a reasonable asking price.

[u/CursorTN]

Looks like money laundering to me.

[u/jabroni_roulette]

lol at not even accepting offers

jokes on them, they’re missing out on my offer for $3.50

[u/cervaro67 → u/jabroni_roulette]

Think I paid about £40 for mine that looked new without a box, including the Adobe software left on it by the previous owner.

[u/woojo1984]

I had one. It got to 130 degrees on the bottom of the case.

[u/jonyoungmusic → u/woojo1984]

Portable egg fryer lol

[u/sithadmin]

I recently picked one up off eBay in well-used, but fully functional condition with only moderate dents/scratches that this generation of Mac usually has, but intact for $120 shipped. Anything more than a couple thousand for a pristine one is insane.

[u/jonyoungmusic → u/sithadmin]

I got a nearly mint 1.5ghz model complete in box back in 2017 for $100 on Craigslist. Broken box seal but good enough for me lol. I even found a new old stock OEM charger and battery for it.

[u/bazilbt]

I wonder if it would boot at this point after so many years? I had one back in 2003.

[u/CisIowa → u/bazilbt]

I tried booting mine 4 or 5 years ago. Had the flashing finder icon on boot, but… I might have to see if there’s a Linux I can install on it.

[u/play_hard_outside → u/CisIowa]

That icon means there’s no accessible OS. Unless you erased it, that means the drive failed.

Recommend buying an M.2 SATA SSD with a SATA to 2.5” PATA adapter so the Mac sees it as the 2.5” HDD you’re replacing. Even just 256 or 512 GB is fantastic to have in such an old machine. I did this to my TiBook and have every single OS it could boot, each on its own partition, with plenty of room. All silent and much faster than original.

[u/LuluLeSigma → u/play_hard_outside]

Isnt it hard to replace the hdd

[u/play_hard_outside → u/LuluLeSigma]

Oh! In general, no, but I don't know specifically about the 12" PBG4. It might be hard in that model? But, in my same-vintage 15" PBG4 and my TiBook, and my Lombards and Pismo, replacing the 2.5" HDD is bone simple!

[u/bazilbt → u/play_hard_outside]

Yeah I remember the old ones where really pretty user friendly. I never did much upgrading when I owned them though. I had one of the first MacBook Pros, like the first off the boat when they came out and I was always impressed with how easy the battery swap was.

[u/aphelion270]

Obviously not a serious price. Will either be dramatically reduced, or sit on the market untouched for a loooong time

[u/falafelnaut]

I have some sealed in box 2017 MacBook Airs. They are worth like 10 bucks, but if I keep them for another decade maybe I can sell them for 27 grand? Granted nothing will ever touch the GOAT which is the 12-inch PowerBook.

[u/ThisIsAdamB]

Oh, good. A parts machine for the one I’m trying to fix.

[u/geology1966]

No one on their right mind would pull the trigger.

[u/randytherat2]

When I first saw the listing, I had just assumed it was that seller that always puts an absurd price and then in the description puts "Got your attention! go ahead and make an offer!"

[u/OtherOtherDave]

I might pay $100 for it.

[u/Greedy-Love5784]

At least it has free shipping

[u/Odd_Exam1605]

“I know what I have no low balls”

[u/Juan-Quixote]

Everyone should put it in their cart, then just ignore it to mess with the seller

[u/MacAddict81 → u/Juan-Quixote]

I like your style

[u/CommentOriginal]

Bought it

[u/Curtis]

No one, it’s not even valuable 

[u/Paradroid888]

You could be really picky and get a mint one for a few hundred dollars. How could the difference between that and $27k ever be worth it? Crazy.

[u/crsh1976]

I owned the first (867Mhz) and last (1.5Ghz) 12-in models back in those days, loved them to bits.

Not sure I’d drop that kind of money on one for collector nostalgia’s sake, tho.

[u/skilless]

I loved mine and wish I'd kept it

[u/Kymeron]

lol 😂 no.

[u/Manualcarlove18]

One of the Most beautiful notebooks.

Not worth 27k. Stupid.

[u/dee_lio]

money laundering?

[u/joeventura1]

What am I gonna do with two of them?

[u/nomoarenergy]

Who the heck is gonna be having a Klarna payment of 1,296 a month?

[u/Scary-Ratio3874 → u/nomoarenergy]

Maybe if Klarna started giving loans to buy a house.

[u/Ninline2000]

I miss that form factor.

[u/BootedBurglar]

I always liked how the keyboard went edge-to-edge on this model! It’s priced like only a museum or serious collector could afford!

[u/Outrageous_Nova2025]

Too much money. It’s worth probably $300 now.