(I mean.. I'd like to Own a Veyron, too ... for maybe a week?--insurance etc. paid by someone-not-moi.)

Then too, your machines are tools and Apple may be today's closest-thing to Tektronix of yore
--whose test/measurement equipment was also distinguished for its physical beauty (of innards: ceramic terminal strips and like that)
while being uncontested as Worldwide state-of-art: before that phrase got cliched-to-death by Admen.

The subject weirdos, however (while mentioning price of each device!) appear not ever to have thought about what Else they might do with much more than Half-vast cash, simply:
just get More of the same stuff. Got a Veyron? get several in different colors.


One cannot envy such a mindset, it is so impoverished--but there it Is:
A digital oxymoron too, vast wealth / the poverty of a focus only on Me-Mine+More.
And flocks of servants obviously in full-dread of ever disappointing a Royal with a speck on a $1M carpet.



And Rmoney waiting in the (our?) wings :-/