5300 Brand New Sealed In Box

[Mac128]

Just in time for Christmas, this 5300 PowerBook never opened, brand new sealed in box.

Now you too can experience first hand the cracked cases, broken AC connectors, or spontaneously combusting batteries with no recourse for warranty replacement.

 

[LCGuy]

Very nice, if a bit expensive!!!!

 

[Rodus]

I'd take it if they paid me $150. My 5300 suffered from every known problem, it's the only machine I've ever just thrown in the bin.

 

[Mac SK]

I have a 5300ce got at the thrift store. External scsi devices will not mount on the desktop. I have the right SCSI cable. A hard drive,CD rom nor zip drive will mount. SCSI probe sees the drive, when you click mount, nothing. Had to load OS7.5 with floppies. Tried to get in it as a network drive(have the cable for that also) It wants to freeze up on an OS install,but small files transfer ok.

Any ideas? [] ]'>

 

[Strimkind]

I heard about the exploding batteries but nothing about case quality or anything like that.

Mind you I was wondering a little while ago why you never see any 5300s anywhere.

 

[Christopher]

Sealed? Then what laptop is in the picture?

 

[Unknown_K]

He said he purchased a few and I guess opened one of them. I don't care for that model so I think the price is a bit steep. Wonder if the battery will even charge after all this time.

 

[joshc]

Funny price - I got one for free. Awful display. Slow. 99% chance the battery is useless.

 

[Temetka]

I love my 5300 and I would be very interested if the price were say $50. Otherwise, mine works fine. I'd mainly be picking it up for extra parts, and everything else it shipped with plus the box which always hold nostalgic value for me.

 

[Anonymous Freak]

Of my four 5300s, only one didn't experience hinge or power connector failure. Two were warranty repaired, one is still broken. (I got it after the warranty extension had expired.)

 

[Morrick]

I bought a second-hand 5300ce, very well taken care for, in 2003. Never had a problem (touching wood). The battery still lasts 10 minutes. The display is actually good, considering the age, and still quite bright. With its maximum 64 MB and Mac OS 8.1 it's also rather responsive. A bit slow during boot, admittedly.

Cheers,

Rick

 

[Blessed Cheesemaker]

It looks like nobody bought it, even after he listed it again for $100.

FYI, as a former owner of a 5300 (plain 5300, greyscale) and a 1400cs, here is my advice:

Stay away from passive matrix displays (those with the -cs).

They are just too dim. At age 27, I thought I was losing my vision.

Also, if you want a 5300, get the 5300ce...it as an active-matrix 800x600 display, vs. the 640x480 display of the rest of the 5300's.

Other than that...the hinge/bezel problem, the "jumping RAM" I actually liked my 5300!

 

[Temetka]

5300's are good machines.

I second the idea of upgrading the LCD to an active matrix one. I would like to find one and do this to mine.

They are so bloody cute. Then again so was the PB540c I also owned, but I like the personality of the 5300 better.

 

[tomlee59]

I heard about the exploding batteries but nothing about case quality or anything like that.
Mind you I was wondering a little while ago why you never see any 5300s anywhere.

The funny thing is that no consumers ever experienced the exploding-battery problem -- exposure was limited to a very small number of developers who'd gotten prototype 5300 'books. A switch back to NiMH batteries was quickly made in time for volume production.

Bad case plastics, however, are a different story. A great many 5300 owners had hinges break on them, or some other such problem. Apple extended their repair window at least once (perhaps twice) in response to a loud and sustained chorus of complaints.

 

[freudling]

Love my mint 5300ce... threw a CF Card in there for an internal hard drive. Works great, and has a double capacity battery that lasts for about 5 hours, and I have a flush wifi card that allows me to surf the web... I use google mobile and just surf the web with google converting to mobile on the fly, so quicker load times!