Re: [NTLK] I've always wanted a Newton....

From: Brian (bmcewen_at_comcast.net)
Date: Fri Aug 30 2002 - 09:19:23 EDT


>Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 01:22:58 UT
>From: dynstatic_at_warpmail.net

>So my question is, does anyone have a newton 2100 for sale? I'm scared
>of eBay. I see many with a buy now option for $65. They cant be this
>cheap now can they? How leary should I be? Also I think these are
>2000's upgraded to 2100's. Is there any disadvantage to this? If you
>have one for sale (2100) please respond in private.

The super cheap ones, usually if you look they are missing major
pieces, like the screen cover, battery flat, no A/C adapter, etc etc.
Maybe they have some screen damage maybe, other problems. Getting
some items separately is posible but turns into real money really
quickly, and IMO you'd be better off to buy a working and complete
system, since you are starting from scratch.

For a nice bundle the site I can recommend at this time would be
www.jksalesinc.com, nice useable bundles for $190 and down, plus some
scruffy $60 Newtons likely comparable to the ebay parts machine for
cheap is you want them. There might be other resellers with nice
units left but the only ones I knew of have run through pretty much
all their good stock.

I have recently demo'd my 2100 to two friends and they each got the
$190 bundle from this reseller (in the last 2 months) and each said
the machine was "beautiful". The only thing you might need to add
would be a battery cage which you can get from Apple still (it'sa
little spendy though), or refurb the rechargeable pack yourself
(instructions on the web, this is a pretty cheap fix). Battery cages
seem to be about $50 on ebay when they (rarely) come up, so no help
there. This guy's packages all come with the PC cable with dongle
built-in, to talk to a mac you'd need to get another adapter (about
$15) or get some cables to convert from pc serial to mac serial (also
pretty cheap).

If you wait you might find a person here selling their own (the
shame, the shame) 2100 but usually there are enough extras that the
price for a nice bundle is going to be over $200.

HTH.

Brian

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