Ask HN: How much money have you made with a single personal laptop?

I have a 2014 Macbook Pro Retina which I bought refurbished in 2015. Using it since then and made millions in revenue (for my business, not personal to be specific).

I started my first open source application on a small netbook back in 2009 when I was deployed in Afghanistan. When I came back to my corporate job I use my new technical experience to more than doubled my salary with 3 raises in a year: first compensation boost for minimum salary after transferring from a design job in marketing to a developer job in product development, second for promotion to senior when I became the company A/B test engineer, third a match raise to prevent me from leaving after receiving an offer letter elsewhere. I set the record for most raises in a year and largest compensation boost (in percentage terms) at that company, which at the time had 3200 employees.

That netbook was awesome. I would frequently pack it my rucksack without care which would become palletized cargo under other peoples' gear on aircraft. It took coming home to my kids to break it.

Is the laptop itself really that interesting…? IMHO it’s the business that might be interesting. Not the laptop, pencils or coffee mugs that the founder might have touched while building their company.

Allow me to sell you a dozen noseclips.

it is a bit like: Car Mechanic - How much money did you make with this screwdriver? Still it is a valid question as it is interesting how extreme the return on invest can be in IT compared to other industries like logistics ...