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Old MacBook Pro -- works, but read for details - $50 (S. Austin)
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A MacBook Pro from semi-ancient days.
It works -- mostly! But I’m selling it for parts and salvage. If that’s not worth it to you, I’ll know because you won’t inquire about it. If it is worth it to you, then great, let’s strike this bargain.
Screen: Excellent, nice and bright. My only recent use for it has been to listen to music and watch movies, for which it’s fine :)
RAM: 2GB of the underrated DDR2, one of the best smelling varieties of RAM ever made. Little-known fact, this was Stanley Kubrick’s favorite kind of RAM. He left a lot of subliminal messages about it in his films.
Keyboard: Shot. Toast. It no work. The canary doesn’t stir, it doesn’t write, it doesn’t call. It is not a working keyboard. The machine works with, but only with, an external keyboard. BUT, if you want the keycaps as donors, they look nice and all.
Touchpad / trackpad: Works great.
Shell: It is a pretty shell. Perhaps you have parts you want to swap into or out of it.
Ports: They work. (At least, I know that with confidence for the ports I’ve actually used. There’s an M2 (?) docking thingie I’ve never had occasion to use, and Firewire, ditto.
Battery: Nope. Dead / useless, a victim of age. Technically and physically, it’s easily replaceable, which is theoretically nice. But I don’t know what the world supply is of worthwhile batteries.
Power Supply: Works fine! Also, Apple is one of the only companies that makes it easy to swap in a longer cable with a cheap / readily available hourglass extension cable.
Hard disk: 149GB. Works fine.
You might install a lightweight linux on it, and enjoy the nice screen and satisfying hijinx. There are distros around that would probably work fine (with a tiling window manager, say, or XFCE). Or, as above, you want to cobble together something with it.
It’s $50, cash. This line is also a literacy test.