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While true, spectacularly so for Apple. If you had bought shares of the company instead of a new base-model PowerBook G4, you'd have over $700k today.

If instead of a "founders' edition" Tesla Model S you'd bought shares of Tesla, you'd have enough money for fifty Teslas today.

If you'd bought NDVA shares instead of Nvidia's best GPU in 2009 ... you still would not be able to afford Nvidia's current best GPU. Hrmm.

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NVIDIA also gave out dividends (I believe Tesla does not?). Looks like $500 in NVDA in 2009 becomes almost $20k of total return by today. (https://dqydj.com/stock-return-calculator/)

You won't believe how much their most expensive product costs.

How I got Nvidia’s most expensive GPU using one weird tip

I am starting a newsletter where I can say that I got 10 out of the last 10 picks right! I will have one reviewer who will testify that every one of my picks sent to him was correct. To bad I won't be able to include the other 1023 reviewers :-(

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.

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.

> 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?

With the shares you could’ve bought instead of spending on a top end Mac Pro setup in 2011, you might be able to afford two monitor stands now.

/sarcasm

I’m glad that Apple ditched the trash can Mac design, but I just haven’t been able to mentally justify the new Mac Pro’s price tag. Really curious what Apple will do on the high end side with ARM. Going to sit on my heavily upgraded 2011 Mac Pro a bit longer and see.

That's... Not really a fair comparison. Nvidia didn't introduce their Enterprise line until 2010, so you're comparing a gaming card to a professional card. Nvidia stock has certainly gone up many multiples of what a geforce costs.

I'm guessing the NVDA part was a joke.

In 2009, NVDA was around $10. It is trading 40x, over $400.

Yes it is a joke. Nvidia now sells things that cost a million dollars.

Although not a fair comparison. I laughed out so loud reading the last sentence.

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