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Re:Intel in Macs (2007) by grecy on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @01:23AM (#23767111)
In 1999 at the age of 18, just before going to University to study Software Engineering I spent all my savings from my first job on a Beige G3 233Mhz. The box was $3k, the 17 inch Apple/Sony Trinitron another $1500. Dad drove it home in his car that was worth less than the contents of the big cardboard boxes.

Sometimes it's fun to calculate how much I'd have if I spent those 1999 dollars on APPL.

Re:Intel in Macs (2007) by teekert on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @05:51AM (#23768409)
Well, I did some BTC mining on my atom board in the day. Also there is that guys that bought a pizza for 10K btc.
Re:Intel in Macs (2007) by iso1631 on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @08:14AM (#23769115)
> Sometimes it's fun to calculate how much I'd have if I spent those 1999 dollars on APPL.

How much would you have if you'd invested in pets.com

How much did that G3 help you on your road to a high paying software engineering job?