A Working Apple-1 Signed By Wozniak Shatters Record In $1.15 Million Sale
Computer part prices have skyrocketed as big tech pivots to rapid AI factory buildouts, but even so, we're reasonably confident that you can build a high-end machine for a million bucks. Alternatively, you could take your million and change and score a piece of Apple history, as a buyer just did after winning an auction for a rare and working Apple-1. The final price? A cool $1,148,200.
Purchased at Bonhams, that enormous sum also includes a buyer's premium fee by the auction house. By shooting past the $1 million mark, the machine set a new all-time auction record for a commercially sold production Apple-1. It also easily eclipsed the auction lot's initial $500,000 to $800,000 estimate after an intense 28-minute bidding war broke out between two collectors before the hammer came down.
The winning bid reflects the rarity and condition of the Apple-1, otherwise known as the "Hatfield" Apple-1 because...
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