The "how much did your computer setup make you poorer" thread

[DeSnousa]

... I didn't drink alcohol for a month to get my iMac G5.

Just how much beer do you drink

 

[RaesDamien]

2005
Apple Power Mac G5: 3500 EUR
Wacom Intuos3 A4 + pens: 800 EUR
Sony DSC-H1 (incl. accessories): 550 EUR
OCZ 2GB Memory: 240 EUR
Maxtor 250GB HD: 120 EUR

2006
Apple Cinema Display 23": 1200 EUR
Apple iSight: 150 EUR

To Come
Apple MacBook Pro… and new desk.


*sigh* I really need to slow it down ^^

 

[thworple]

2004/05 (sorry - its in £s, can't be bothered to convert to $s!

Powerbook 12" 1.33Ghz £1249
512MB RAM upgrade £49
DELL 2004FPW monitor £335
Apple Keyboard £19
Wired Mighty Mouse £35
Apple Bluetooth Mouse £49
iCurve £20
Lacie 200GB Porsche HDD £90
Lacie DL DVD Re-writer + Toast £139

Total of £1985 ($3775..... ok, so I can be bothered)

And just about to drop around £2100 on a new MacPro!

 

[iBookG4user]

dual core PC: $1100
iBook G4 14": $1500
512MB RAM: $100
dell laptop: $1300
Accesories: $350

soon
(in about a month if all goes to plan)
MacBook Pro: $2700
160GB HDD: $300
2GB RAM: $200

and I had to pay for all of that and I don't have a job yet. And this is all recent too. I just realized how expensive my next purchase is going to be...

 

[AndyR]

2004 - iPod Mini £179 (sold 2006 for £190) PROFIT £11
2005 - Mac Mini £449 (sold 2006 for £486) PROFIT £37
2006 - iPod 5g 30gb
2006 - 20" Intel iMac, 1gb , 250gb, 256mb vram
2006 - 1.83 White Macbook + 2gb Optival Ram
2006 - Wedding - now skint

 

[inlimbo]

I didn't drink alcohol for a month to get my iMac G5.

*gasp* Sacrilege!

 

[epicwelshman]

All prices in Canadian dollars

Sony DSC-H1 - $570
1GB MemoryStick - $100
Tax = $100

Black MacBook (1GB RAM) - $1661
2GB Nano - $205
AppleCare - $218
MacBook bag - $50
Tax = $300

Wireless keyboard and mouse - $30 (on sale + rebate)
Headphones - $20 (down from $70)

So right now it comes to roughly $3300

Thinking of buying an external display for about $200 as well... so let's say $3500... ouch.

 

[Lau]

I spent the summer from the minute I finished university that year (2004) to the week I started again for the next year getting shouted at, whinged at and generally got hugely irritated by customers at a call centre, particularly as it was usually because one of the permanent staff hadn't done their job. Pretty much sold my soul to the devil that summer. But, I got a PowerBook out of it (£1050 or so) and so that was all just about worth it.

Earlier this year the hard drive on the PowerBook failed, and I sold it to a fellow MR member for £450 or so, and bought an iBook for £650, which as it would have cost £200 to pay someone to fix meant that I was happy, as I got a virtually identically specced machine but with Tiger. I'd done four days of tours round the university for £40 a day earlier in the year, so that almost covered it. All worked out rather well.

 

[asxtb]

iBook ~ 1000
RAM ~ 100
External HD ~ 100
Shuffle ~ 70
iPod 5G ~ 300
iPod Hi-Fi ~ 350
Doing my best not to buy another Apple product for a while ~ Priceless

 

[Cloudgazer]

I'm so poor now I'm living on the street in a box.
But at least its a stylish Apple box.

 

[Killyp]

MacBook - £1500
Dell desktop - £1200
iMac G3 - £150 (£120 of upgrades on top)
Hard drives & stuff - £300
iPod Mini - birthday
PDA - £30 (second hand)
iPod dock + remote - £40

£3340 all together

 

[Greebazoid]

I'm guessing on prices... but this is what I've bought this year:

1 x 17" intel Mac - R15,000
1GB additional memory - R1,900
mighty mouse - R550
1 x core duo mac mini, isight camera (why?!), bluetooth keyboard, mighty mouse - about - R10,000
1 x 19" fujitsu siemens wide screen monitor - R2,200
1 x 23" apple cinema HD - R6,000
2 x 1GB memory stick - R1,800
2 x bluetooth mighty mice - R1,200

Jeepers.. R38,500 - the price of a small car!

according to xe.com thats US$5312

ok.. time to stop with the spending now.. put that cheque book down. Step away from the cheque book..

 

[AvSRoCkCO1067]

Macbook Pro with upgraded ram : $2100 (edu)
Soundsticks : 160
iPod Video : 300
iPod Nano : 200
iPod Universal Kit : 100
iCurve : 30
Apple Bluetooth Mouse : 70
Apple Bluetooth Keyboard : 50
Bang and Olufsen Headphones : 170
iPod Socks : 20
iPod Video Case : 20
iPod Nano Case : 20
External Viewsonic Monitor : 350

Total = 3590 (that's over a semester's tuition )

 

[I'mAMac]

iMac - 2000$
iPod Nano 4gb - 200$
Mac Mini - 600$

I don't i'll be getting anything electronic for a year

 

[twoodcc]

2005:
around $700 for G4 mini
$250 for nano
$130 for 1GB shuffle
$2000 for 15" powerbook

2006:
sold mini ($400)
intel imac 17" - about $1300 after taxes
60 gb ipod video - $400
2.0ghz white macbook - $1200
RAM - $150
Hard drive - $170

i don't even want to add all this up. i did sell a pc that i built in 2005

 

[Trekkie]

Since 2000 I'd guess I've spent about $10000 on computers, maybe more.

iMac G4 14" 800Mhz 2001 (for Wife)
Used Powerbook Ti 550Mhz 2002 (for Me)
Powerbook G4 12" 867MHz 2003 (For Me)
iMac G5 1.8GHz Rev A (Current Machine)
iBook G4 1.2GHz 2004 (For Wife, Her Current Machine)
Sony Vaio RC110G. Pentium-D 930 (Wanted to play Everquest II and a few other games, brother convinced me, now he's got a Mac Pro and I'm selling it on eBay)
Mac Pro 2.66GHz + 23" ACD (My New Machine, waiting on it)

Hoping the Mac Pro will at least last me another two years like the iMac did. Wanted more processing power as I use photoshop a lot more than I used too, and I want to use Aperture. The vid card in the iMac does not support it.

 

[ricgnzlzcr]

iBook ~ 1000
RAM ~ 100
External HD ~ 100
Shuffle ~ 70
iPod 5G ~ 300
iPod Hi-Fi ~ 350
Doing my best not to buy another Apple product for a while ~ Priceless

It's pretty hard not to do that when browsing these forums. I read about everyone and their new mac(book) pros and I want one. Just have to realize that I can live off of a powermac g4 with a big hard drive and be fine for most tasks I do.

 

[Glen Quagmire]

Over the last year:

New bits for PC - £400
Eizo S2110W LCD monitor - £720.00
iPod video 60GB (plus accessories) - £320
Mac mini - £550
Mac Pro - £2650 (not received yet)
Hard drives for Mac Pro - £270
Assorted other bits and pieces - £250

Grand total: approximately £5100, or $9600.

Next on the list are a DSLR camera (probably a Canon EOS400D/Digital Rebel XTi) and a new watch (probably an Omega). I will probably sell a load of my PC bits on Ebay/Usenet once my Mac Pro to try and recoup some of my losses.

Sigh. I am a slave to materialism. Still, it keeps me off the streets.

 

[Chone]

Haven't spent much lately but my 5 computer setup set me back like $15000 over the past 5 years, including two pcs, 3 powermacs and a powerbook, I'm about to be set back another 4500$ or so however, a Mac Pro (with X19XT) and a 1500$ custom built PC.

 

[Fedge]

Not to be rude to the OP, but what exactly is the point of this thread? We all know Apple Equipment is expensive and that many of us have "spending issues." But is listing dollar for dollar what we've spent on machines anything more than a high-tech spitting contest?

 

[ricgnzlzcr]

Not to be rude to the OP, but what exactly is the point of this thread? We all know Apple Equipment is expensive and that many of us have "spending issues." But is listing dollar for dollar what we've spent on machines anything more than a high-tech spitting contest?

No, I always liked knowing what I got out of my money and what my tech lust has made me purchase. I'd think I were a lone soldier in that, but I guess other people wanted to post how much they got set back. If I wanted to post a show off of how much money I'd spent I wouldn't have been posting my $400 current setup. I'm just interested in what people on these forums normally spend on the Apple technology we like since people on here aren't the "average joe" of the tech consumer area. To me it's like a hobby which I guess makes me a "gadgeteer" . I just want to know if others like me give in as much as I do. That's it.

 

[Fedge]

No, I always liked knowing what I got out of my money and what my tech lust has made me purchase.

Fair 'nuff.

 

[Josias]

2003:
Canon S330 Photo: $50.
Total: $50.

2004:
Sennheiser HDR110: $100.
Total: $100.

2005:
512 MB Shuffle: $100.
iPod USB charger: $30.
Total: $130.

2006:
MacBook: $1400.
Mighty Mouse: Bough for $50, sold for $25.
BT Mighty Mouse: $70.
Total: $1495

2003: $50.
2004: $100.
2005: $130.
2006: $1495
Total: $1775.

This will probably be more than doubled when I get my Core 2/3 MBP

 

[jlmodell]

2005:
bought mac mini (g4), apple wired keyboard, logitech mx1000, 512mb ram stick, putty knives, jbl creature speakers, 320gb acomdata external, ipod nano, dell 2005fpw... $1609

bought sony psp, 512mb memory duo thing... $230

sold ipod nano, sony psp, 512mb memory duo thing... $355

bought ipod video, etymotic er6i... $350

2006:
sold mac mini (g4), apple wired keyboard, 256mb ram stick (stock one), ipod video, etymotic er6i... $700ish

bought mac mini (core solo, superdrive), apple bluetooth keyboard, 250gb maxtor one touch external, cybershot t7... $1150

bought ipod nano 1gb, jogging armband, nike+ adapter and sneakers... $350

bought nintendo ds lite, ez flash 4 lite, 1gb microsd card... $245

sold mac mini (core solo, superdrive), microsoft wireless 5000, jbl creature speakers... $535 (- $40 shipping)

bought mac pro (stock + bluetooth upgrade), ipod nano 2gb, altec lansing fx 6021... $2500 (- $179.99 for the eventual rebate check i'll get back)

sold ipod 2gb, jogging armband... $145 (- $6 shipping)

bought 2x 74gb wd raptor drives, 1x 400gb seagate sata ii... $425 (- $75 eventual rebates)

bought 2x 1gb micro sd card, 3x lg chocolate phones (lg vx8500) w/ 2yr contract... $510 (- $150 eventual rebates)


Total spent= $4850.01 ... no clue if that is correct. every time I calculated it, I couldn't get over how much I spent.

 

[mad jew]

Just how much beer do you drink

Sambuca's where it's at. Apparently about AU$2000 worth per month.

*gasp* Sacrilege!

It's okay. I made up for it the month after.