Jony Ive’s RED Mac Pro Sold For Almost $1 Million This Weekend

Jony Ive’s RED Mac Pro Sold For Almost $1 Million This Weekend

Chris Martin and Bono played a duet on a $1.6 million piano, Jenna and Barbara Bush worked the room, and a computer was sold for $977,000. Though Vanity Fair contends that Jony Ive and Marc Newson’s Sotheby’s auction on Saturday was “unlike the typical Sotheby’s auction,” it still sounds like pretty typical rich people stuff to us.

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Inside Jony Ive’s Extraordinary (and Very Expensive) Sotheby’s Auction

Inside Jony Ive's Extraordinary (and Very Expensive) Sotheby's Auction

Jony Ive creates objects that end up in the hands of hundreds of millions of people. But for his latest trick—a RED charity auction at Sotheby’s tomorrow afternoon—he and designer Marc Newson are offering up something else: The one-of-a-kind.

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Functional Apple 1 auctioned off for $671.4K, sets new record (updated)

Functional Apple 1 auctioned off for $6714K, sets new Sotheby's record

With $671,400, you could buy roughly 2,040.7 base-model iPad minis before taxes. One unnamed buyer, however, just laid that amount out for a single Apple 1 from 1976. Auctioned through Cologne, Germany-based Auction Team Breker Sotheby’s, the price beats out its $640K record from another unit last November. Interestingly, the seller refurbished this latest Apple 1 to working condition, after paying only $40K for it privately. While it doesn’t seem to have the original enclosure, we’d be remiss not to mention that the seller also had Steve Wozniak grace the motherboard with his signature. You’ll find more info at the source, while we wrap our heads around how this makes last summer’s Sotheby’s auction price of $374.5K look like a relative steal.

Update: We initially reported that the auction was held through Sotheby’s, when it was actually done by Auction Team Breker. We’ve corrected this in this post.

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