I remember when I bought the best endowed i7 15" MacBook Pro back in 2011 I paid around 2300 € (around the same in dollars back then). At least I had an optical drive, USB, Firewire and LAN. Oh, and the MagSafe. You can't tell me it's just inflation.,(reply>), JayB oof... 2011 15" Macbook pro... I'd bet that poor thing is long dead due to GPU failure.. A bad year for those macbooks.. .