A lit­tle old, but…

In 2001, a Power­Book G4 would have set you back $3500. Sup­pose instead that you had pur­chased $3500 in Apple stock instead of the computer…that stock would now be worth about $110,000. Even an orig­i­nal iPod’s worth in AAPL ($399) would be worth almost $12,000 today.

~ Kottke’s Buy­ing Apple stock instead of products