Vintage Mac Price Guide

This pages exist to help Mac users in the US, Canada, Australia, and UK determine fair prices for used 680x0-based Macs - prices that both the buyer and seller should generally find acceptable. Our goal is to help individuals, schools, thrift stores, businesses, and anyone else find a fair starting point when selling their old Mac and Macintosh clone hardware.

We hope to update these prices on a rotating basis every 4-5 weeks based on discussion on the Mac Price email list. If you believe our prices are out of line, please join the list and discuss matters there. This page should always be considered a work in progress.

Unless otherwise noted, price assumes a mouse and keyboard are included. If they are missing, please adjust the price downward accordingly. All prices are in local currency.

These are user prices, not collector prices. At this time, we generally believe that the Mac 128K, 512K, and 512Ke are no longer practical user machines and do not provide pricing guidelines for them.

Model descriptions include the model name, which is linked to its profile on Low End Mac, followed by memory size in MB, a slash, and hard drive size. We try to list at least two common configurations for each model.

Older Macs may have different size replacement drives and memory configurations not listed here. Remember, these are guidelines - adjust prices as feels appropriate.

Upgrade Value

• All prices assume inclusion of a keyboard and mouse.
• Additional memory should be valued at no more than 50¢ per megabyte, except in the case of the Mac Classic, which cannot be upgraded at all without a special memory expansion card.
• External 800K floppy drives are worth about $5. An external 1.4M FDHD SuperDrive is worth about $10.
• The 20 MB MiniScribe hard drive often found in the Mac SE is essentially worthless. Internal hard drive values (add $5 for external drives, be sure to deduct value of "base" drive):
  • 20 MB
  • 40 MB
  • 80-100 MB
  • 120-160 MB
  • 200-250 MB
  • 300-400 MB
  • 500-600 MB
  • 700-800 MB
  • 1-1.2 GB
• Ethernet card, add $5.
• Internal CD-ROM, add $5

Compact Macs

The Plus, SE, and Classic can only be expanded to 4 MB total memory.

Mac Plus

• base: 1 MB RAM, no hard drive, US$5
• external 20 MB hard drive, add $3, 40 MB, add $5

Mac SE

• base: 1 MB RAM, two 800K floppies, no hard drive, US$5
• 20 MB hard drive, add $1, 40 MB, add $3
• FDHD/SuperDrive/1.4M floppy, add $5

Mac Classic

• base: 1 MB RAM, one floppy, no hard drive, US$5
• memory expansion requires special card, if present, add $5 regardless of RAM installed
• 40 MB hard drive, add $5

Mac SE/30

• base: 1 MB RAM, one floppy, no hard drive, US$15
• 2 MB RAM, add $1; 4-5 MB RAM, add $2; 8 MB RAM, add $3
• 20 MB hard drive, no value; 40 MB, add $2; 80 MB, add $5

The Classic II and Color Classic can only be expanded to 10 MB total memory.

Classic II/Performa 200

• base: 2 MB RAM, 40 MB hard drive, US$15

Color Classic/Performa 250

• base: 4 MB RAM, 40 MB hard drive, US$50
• VRAM upgrade, add $5

Colour Classic II/Performa 275

• rare in US, since Apple never marketed it in the States
• base: 4 MB RAM, 80 MB hard drive, US$120?

Mac II Family

Mac II

• base: 1 MB RAM, 8-bit video card, no hard drive, $5

Mac IIx

• base: 1 MB RAM, 8-bit video card, no hard drive, US$5

Mac IIcx

• base: 1 MB RAM, 8-bit video card, no hard drive, US$5

Mac IIci

• base: 1 MB RAM, no hard drive, US$10, £15
• 32K level 2 cache installed, add US$5, £5

Mac IIfx

• base: 4 MB RAM, no hard drive, US$10

Mac IIsi

• base: 2 MB RAM, 40 MB hard drive, US$5, £10

Mac IIvi

• base: 4 MB RAM, 40 MB hard drive

Mac IIvx/Performa 600

• base: 4 MB RAM, 40 MB hard drive, US$10-15

Mac LC Family

The Mac LC and LC II can only be expanded to 10 MB total memory.

Mac LC

• base: 2 MB RAM, 40 MB hard drive, US$5
• rare: dual floppy educational version, value unknown

Mac LC II/Performa 400-430

• base: 4 MB RAM, 40 MB hard drive, US$5

Mac LC III/Performa 450

• base: 4 MB RAM, 80 MB hard drive

Mac LC III+/Performa 460

• base: 4 MB RAM, 80 MB hard drive

Mac 500 Series

The Mac TV is fairly rare, very limited in scope, and will tend to command a collector's price, so we have not listed it here.

Performa 550/LC 520

• base: 4 MB RAM, 80 MB hard drive

Performa 550/LC 550

• base: 4 MB RAM, 160 MB hard drive

Performa 57x/LC 575

• base: 4 MB RAM, 160 MB hard drive, £30

Performa 58x/LC 580

• base: 8 MB RAM, 500 MB hard drive

Centris & Quadra Family

When dealing with a machine marked "DOS compatible," be sure the DOS card hasn't been removed.

Centris 610

• base: 4 MB RAM, 80 MB hard drive, £30

Centris 650

• base: 4 MB RAM, 80 MB hard drive, £60

Quadra 605/Performa 47x/LC 475

• base: 4 MB RAM, 80 MB hard drive, US$10, £15

Quadra 610

• base: 4 MB RAM, 160 MB hard drive, £100
• DOS card, add

Quadra 630/Performa 63x

• base: £20

LC 630 DOS/Performa 640

• base:

Quadra 650

• base: 4 MB RAM, 230 MB hard drive, US$20, £20

Quadra/Centris 660av

• base: 4 MB RAM, 80 MB hard drive

Quadra 700

• base: 4 MB RAM, 80 MB hard drive

Quadra 800

• base: 8 MB RAM, 230 MB hard drive

Quadra 840av

• base: 4 MB RAM, 230 MB hard drive, £50

Quadra 900

• base: 4 MB RAM, 80 MB hard drive

Quadra 950

• base: 4 MB RAM, 230 MB hard drive, £150

PowerPC Upgrades

These PowerPC upgrades are somewhat rare and may command a price higher than the computer they are installed in.

• PPC for 040 PDS
• PPC for LC PDS

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Page updated 2001.08.26

Index

• Vintage Macs

• PowerBooks

• Power Macs

• iMacs

• Mac Clones

• Peripherals