Questions about selling iMac

Hi All,

I haven't posted in a long time (thankfully no problems with any of my apple products!). I am considering selling my iMac (20" metal, 320 gb HD, 2GB memory, 2.4 GHz) and have a couple of questions that I am hoping someone may be able to answer.

1. How do a erase everything off the computer before I sell it? I don't want any personal information to remain on the computer. I have done this before with a PC but never had to do it with a Mac.

2. Where is the best place to sell it? Should no one locally be interested, where would be the next *reliable* place to sell it?


Thank you for your help and patience! I am thinking of replacing it with a new Macbook to gain portability and not to have to have a desk devoted to the computer.

Thank you!!

Hello, to erase everything, just pop in your install disks and restart. It will take you through the steps to start from scratch. If it doesn't automatically startup, restart again holding c. If you are unable to sell it locally on craigslist, etc., there is ebay, or the Buy/Sell section on this forum. Good luck on your sale.

Hi, even easier way to erase everything--

Open up Disk Utility and click on 'Macintosh HD' (or whatever your HD is called,) and click erase.

Mr Macintosh said:

Hi, even easier way to erase everything--

Open up Disk Utility and click on 'Macintosh HD' (or whatever your HD is called,) and click erase.

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Gotta boot from the install disk first... Can't use Disk Utility to erase while the drive is mounted and the system is running. It would sort of be like asking OS X to commit suicide.

Regards.

Personally I would say to download the killdisk software and burn it onto a blank disk, will erase the data better then a reformat would. And the free killdisk will work great.

And maybe try using a place like iSoldit (on ebay) they post the sale, get the payment and blah blah blah, they take a percentage off of what the sale was for them selves and you get the rest.

Thank you guys for all of the help! Any ideas on how much it may be worth?