My brother has this fascination with online shopping — as in seeing just how expensive he can make his shopping cart.  As he was playing around with some numbers, he came across a very stunning combination.

999 Macbooks (120GB HDD and 2GB Ram) comes in at a whopping 2,196,801.00 dollars.  And this is even before tax.  On my 1400 dollar order today, 140 in tax was added on top of that.  Just imagine the bill if you included taxes and shipping.

So, in high spirits (and partly because this is an excellent way to procrastinate studying for an exam just hours away) I decided to compile a short list of amazing shopping cart totals.  Enjoy.

999 PowerMac Quad G5′s completely maxed out with 16GB Ram, etc along with 999 30″ Apple Displays to go with them:          18.6M  (18,604,377.00)

One maxed out Mac Mini (1.66Ghz, 2Gb Ram, 120Gb HDD) and a 23″ Apple Display comes in at 2,523.00 dollars.  I wonder if anyone has seriously considered this configuration before.

Question: Is there a limit on other types of online stores that let you go past digits in a regular Apple Store.  I was wondering if you had a business account if you might be able to place a larger order?  Although, if I placed an order for 999 computers, or even saved the cart, I’m sure I would be having a pleasant call from an Apple employee shortly.

I’m sure there are other wild ways to dream about spending a small government’s worth of funds, let me know if you have anything else creative.