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andr on April 25, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: What if you had bought Apple stock instead of that...

Adjust for inflation (2.8% mean for 1997 to now [1]) and the $330k value of a PowerBook goes down to $230k in 1997 dollars.

[1] http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=US+inflation+from+1997+...

phil on April 25, 2010 [–]

Yeah, but you wouldn't have those dollars in 1997, you would have them now, after the stock has appreciated. Inflation is rolled in to the stock price in this comparison.

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