I had one of these machines - I wanna say the 450 Mhz one, I bought in early 2000, c/o the Apple Loan for Students program. The total was $4,000 for everything

I had one of these machines - I wanna say the 450 Mhz one, I bought in early 2000, c/o the Apple Loan for Students program. The total was $4,000 for everything including a whopping 17" CRT monitor! Had I paid it on their schedule, the rig would have cost me $8,000. Way too much computer for a kid that worked part time as a Perl dev at a web design company making $10/hour while also going to school for art. Now of course my iPhone SE 2020 is far more powerful in every single way. I do remember being rather annoyed with the speed reduction/price raising. Being a total Apple fanboy, I was deeply entrenched in their fight against uh: the Man, or Intel, or whatever the marketing told me to be mad at.