Apple's stock hit a new high Friday at $648.11.
In 2002 I bought an Apple PowerBook G4 867 Titanium at about $2.300.
According to Kyle Conroy's site, What if I had bought Apple stock instead?, if I had spent that $2300 on Apple stock, priced at $8.61 per share on the laptop's release date on November 6, I could have sold it for over $160,000.
Ouch.
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Matthew Fortner has been at The News & Observer since 2002. He has a passion for gadgets, cutting-edge technology and all things geek.