Forgot about the new MacBook Air, how about Apple-1? The original personal computer is being auctioned by Christie’s beginning November 23 and is expected to net somewhere between $161,000 and $242,000.
The computer was created by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in 1976 in Jobs’ parents’ basement, while the two were in high school.
If you’re truly interested, here are the ancient computer’s specs: 8 KB of RAM, cassette board connector, 6502 microprocessor, and firmware in PROMS. No monitor or keyboard, for anyone hoping to eke out even some minimal use. Let’s be clear: this is a collector’s item only, and as The New York Times points out, this model “could barely power a game of Pong.”
It’s the historical worth of the machine that will lure in buyers. It’s estimated that there are a mere 50 surviving models of the 200 originally produced, as they were (appropriately) swiftly replaced by the Apple-2.
In addition to this harrowing hardware, the winner will also become the proud owner of some Mac memorabilia. Its original box, manual, an invoice, and a letter to the first owner from Jobs himself are included – typed on lined notebook paper.
Everyone stateside interested in bidding is in luck – Christie’s will be holding an online auction simultaneously. So skip Black Friday (for the next several years) and maybe you can afford to make the Apple aficionado on your Christmas list very happy.
Is that what most Apple computers go for?
I have an original atari how much could that fetch?
I'll give them twenty five cents for it.
Looks like the current Macs. Old hardware in a pretty box is all Macs are made of. Even the mac book air is not running the Intel I series processors, which have been out over a year.
And yet that old DuoCore CPU and OS X run faster than the Windows 7 I-core system out there. :)
now they are.
And even then they were loads faster.
now they are.
And even then they were loads faster.
We always knew that Apple computers where over-rated and over-priced. This is the proof that you can't debate. Apple fanboys have created a pop-culture icon, that like usual, is not worth all the hype, but everyone is buying in to keep up.
The economy is still suffering and unemployment rate is high. Some people still have the money to buy this kind of junk.
That would be the people with jobs. If you can't afford it, that's your problem, not ours. :)
You sir are an idiot.
But he is correct :)
haha but yes, he is correct.
lololol^
and it still runs faster than your windows vista machines!