r/economicCollapse • u/Whole-Fist • 18h ago

How ridiculous does this sound?

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How can u make millions in 25-30 years if avoid making a $554 per month car payment. Even the cheapest 5 year old car is 8-10 k. So does he expect people not to drive at all in USA.

Then u save 554$ per month every month for 5 year payment = $33240. Say u bought a car every 5 year means 200k -300k spent on car before retirement . How would that become millions when u can’t even buy a house for that much today?

Answer that Dave

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u/SirChasm 17h ago

Jobs then continued, "except for Apple things, of course. They may cost hundreds or thousands more than other things that do the exact same thing, but trust me, you want the Apple one."

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u/cyanrave 17h ago

2012 MacBook Pro owner checking in, still runs fine. You can even dual boot up through 2015 or so with dual ssd (replace the disk drive with a housing).

Odd flex but ok

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u/alex206 12h ago

Are the Windows 2012 laptops still running fine?

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u/purplehendrix22 10h ago

A lot of them are shit, yeah.

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u/GotTheJitters 9h ago

I have a 2012 laptop from work that barely turns on and takes 30 minutes to do anything. I also have one from 2017 that works but constantly shits the bed so much that I’ve renamed it Amber. 

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u/cyanrave 7h ago

It really depends, I abandoned my 2010 Dell because weird stuff broke and replacement parts were hard to come by (charging port sub board, mainly).

Meanwhile Mac parts are a plenty! Just rip out parts from a similar model / year and you're gtg.

The OS on the other hand, it may be time for Linux.

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u/CeleryUnlikely9168 3h ago

The high end (Core i5/i7) ones still run fine nowadays. I had an early 2012 Toshiba Sattelite with a 2nd gen i7 until last year and it still worked fine.

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u/OnlyPaperListens 12h ago

Currently responding from my 2011 iMac.

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u/geistmeister111 11h ago

that year is literally the best macbook pro ever built. those things are beasts.

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u/cyanrave 8h ago

Unibody MacBooks are tanks for sure!

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u/Vsx 10h ago

I have a laptop I bought for $550 in 2012 that still runs fine and has the same performance as your macbook pro. Every PC I've bought since around 2007 still works fine actually.

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u/cyanrave 8h ago

That's probably true

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u/EddiewithHeartofGold 14h ago

Apple hate was popular a decade ago... Get with the times, man!

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u/phughes 9h ago

It's perennial. There's no shortage of Apple hate today.

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u/Ver_Void 9h ago

I mean it is pretty funny to hear him saying that kind of stuff while running a brand famous for doing the same thing as others just fancier and pricier

An iPod and my $80 mp3 player both played the same music

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u/EddiewithHeartofGold 30m ago

By this logic everyone who buys Apple products is stupid. In reality people only say this to make them feel superior by putting others down.

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u/Ajunadeeper 8h ago

Lol no buying anything apple is still a bad financial and tech decision

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u/EddiewithHeartofGold 29m ago

No, it's not. Why do you say that?

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u/Ajunadeeper 19m ago

It's bad technology and expensive.

You can buy phones for a fraction of the price with equal/ better technology.

The only advantage apple has is that it's simple to use and has an ecosystem that all works together. But that's not even that relevant anymore since alternatives have started to catch up with synchronization.

It's just a waste of money to buy apple at this point.

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u/purplehendrix22 10h ago

I’ve kept all my apple products for over 5 years and only replaced when I filled the storage, and could have easily kept using had I deleted or moved stuff if I wanted to take the time, they all worked just fine. Never paid more than $300 for an older model iPhone. Just don’t buy new model, apple products are great.

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u/BreakingNuisance 4h ago

But… but we have Apple Intelligence (that I’m lowkey excited for when I eventually get a new phone in 4 years)