I'm starting to think maybe he accidentally made the calculations with rent being annually rather than monthly. $700 a month for rent is still pretty cheap, but a lot more understandable.

writer22816

United States5775 Posts

January 28 2009 12:54 GMT

#50

On January 28 2009 14:54 skyglow1 wrote:

http://store.apple.com/us_smb_78313/configure/MA970LL/A?mco=NzQ3Njkz

Putting everything to most expensive configuration gives 27000 lol.

LOL

For some reason adding 30gb of ram costs over nine thousand!!

It's probably a typo but I wouldn't be that surprised if it wasn't

-orb-

United States5770 Posts

January 28 2009 12:58 GMT

#51

On January 28 2009 21:54 writer22816 wrote:

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LOL

For some reason adding 30gb of ram costs over nine thousand!!

It's probably a typo but I wouldn't be that surprised if it wasn't

It's not a typo. Apple is known for milking their customers on things they just hope their customers won't understand.

I remember looking at one point when I was advising my company on what to purchase for my box for rendering 3d, and on the site it was $400 for an extra gig of ram, and the EXACT same specs of ram on a site like newegg or tigerdirect was literally 50 bucks.

Apple is a bunch of fucking faggots

Archaic

United States4024 Posts

January 28 2009 14:00 GMT

#52

Mac Pro =).

Ecael

United States6703 Posts

January 28 2009 14:13 GMT

#53

On January 28 2009 14:58 Jibba wrote:
They were given the money implicitly for the purpose of resuming normal lending levels rather than hoarding it to cover their balance sheets. I have a feeling that we're going to see them lose a lot of customers to small banks that are picking up the slack and giving loans to reliable people that deserve them, but who have been turned down by Citi & Co.

Perhaps, but there is a reason people have been complaining about TARP and the way money given out is managed. Personally while I'd like to see them resume lending on a more normal basis again, I find it rather impractical due to how the market are these days. It essentially comes down to a choice between bad and worse, one where they boost up capital reserves, and one where they lend, gets hit by writedown [naturally] and gets killed by investors. The latter is far more problematic to be worth the possibility that banks doing the "right thing" would start the gears again around the nation.

But yeah, some banks are jumping in the gap eagerly, lol.

Ilikestarcraft

Korea (South)17732 Posts

January 28 2009 14:29 GMT

#54

I havent had a taco in 4-5 years because i moved to Korea. I wouldnt mind having 56,000 tacos

Narrator

United States868 Posts

January 28 2009 15:04 GMT

#55

With the choices that are up there, I'd say rent is the best one. o_O

CFDragon

United States304 Posts

January 28 2009 15:06 GMT

#56

First thing I thought of was:
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buy a ferrari : look at me, i'm so happy!!!; then u crush it in to a wall; who the fuck is happy then?you go to Aspen, a ski trip; you fell, broke some bones; let me hear you laugh fucker
you buy the thing assuming it will make you happy and thats about it
Can Money Buy Happiness? = retarded question

But anyway, I'd probably spend it mainly on like, rent or food. Seriously, don't buy an Alienware or any store bought PC. Every company severely overprices them. The only way to truly get your money's worth is to just buy the parts yourself and put it together. You could make a monstrous computer without selling the farm, so the speak. It's not to hard to build a computer, sure it may seem daunting at first, but once you learn a bit about it it's rather easy.

ninjafetus

United States231 Posts

January 28 2009 15:06 GMT

#57

Pay off my girlfriend's medical debt, make a 6 month emergency fund, give a good chunk to her parents, save / have fun with the rest.

KingofHearts

Japan562 Posts

January 28 2009 15:10 GMT

#58

My friend,, put it in the bank fixed deposit, u get interest every month. or use part of it to start a business .