Crs24tekk Computers

This pro gives you a practical point of view to buying, fixing and sustaining your Mac products. Invaluable.

Awesome service — knows what he’s doing.
He also has an amazing variety of used Macs, including some rare ones.
Great shop. I’ve used it often.

So, you want a Mac, but you don’t really want to pay top dollar for a new Mac. That’s easy: buy a used Mac, right? Shouldn’t Macs depreciate at 30% per year, just like cars, or any other computer? Well, not exactly, no. Macs tend to have a much longer working lifetime than PCs do, so Mac users tend to hang on to their Macs longer, and when they do trade up, they expect good money for their beloved babies. (My personal Mac is over 8 years old now, and you can have it when you pry it out of my cold, dead hands…) Therefore, if you’re hoping to pick up a Mac that’s only a year or two old for a song, think again. But, as long as you don’t want shiny new, and you’re looking for something perfectly capable for surfing the web and email (if not, say, editing videos, in which case you’d want more horsepower), then Appletekk is piled high with old G3s and G4s. (Want one of that first generation G3 iMac? The one which revived Apple’s fortunes, and looks like a monitor that’s been through a rock polisher? There are piles of those, priced from under a hundred bucks.)
I’d rate Appletekk higher, except that the business hours are so short. The way my work week goes, I’m much more likely to have the time to bop down there and drool on a Monday or a Tuesday, except that they’re closed then. Still, I like having a place nearby where I can get perfectly serviceable gear without paying through the nose for it.