New iMac

[danwood]

Any commodity tech is the same. I'd bet a Mac would hold its value way better than a similarly spec'd generic PC.

Absolutely.  The last few Macs I've sold have sold for about 70-80% of the price I bought them for new.

My last Macbook Pro I paid about £900 for and sold for £650.  The Macbook I had before that was £899, I sold that for £700.  

My last desktop PC cost around £800, 3 years later I swapped it for a crate of beer, the one before that I gave away.  There is no money in selling used-PCs, but Macs certainly keep their value.

[danwood]

Hmmm Classic stuff yes, but I have seen used Sam440s/460s sell for really low prices.

Yeah, I've seen A1XEs listed for around £250 recently and they've not sold even.  

Agree on Commodore gear though, that is going up in value every year.

[danwood]

Guess I missed the value train last time I price checked my SAM 440ep complete machine.  Paid a grand for the mobo/ram and OS 4.1 back in 2008 and earlier this year the best offer I got on it was 200 euros if I was willing to cover shipping to England for the whole machine, including case, PSU, and the 2 SSD's and 1 SATA DVD-RW that are in it.

I resigned myself into simply using it as a doorstop a few years down the road versus taking such a financial beating on what still is a a pretty fun little machine.  Couldn't even find anyone to trade me a decent "legacy" Amiga like an A3000 or A4000 for it :/

I imagine the X1's hold their value far better, but I've seen the SAM boards at basically giveaway prices compared to what people paid for them new.

Same with my A1XE, I paid over £700 for it new, £110 for OS 4.1 and the case alone was £250.  But I've seen A1XEs listed at £200-300 and not sell so I may as well just keep it for that price I guess.

An A3000/4000 is worth a lot more than a 440 though, A4000 average price seems to be around £400-600 for a stock system, and they always sell.