Posted on 03/25/2007 6:52:38 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
March 23, 2007 UK-based bespoke luxury goods creator Luvaglio has created the first million dollar laptop. That’s what the first of their luxury laptops will sell for. Full details of the laptop have not been released at this point, but it is known that it incorporates a 17" widescreen LED lit screen with a specially designed anti-reflective glare coating for clear and brighter image, 128GB of Solid State Disk space and a slot loading Blue-Ray drive. There is an integrated screen cleaning device and a very rare coloured diamond piece of jewellery that doubles up as the power button when placed into the laptop and also acts as security identification. Images here, video here.
Luvaglio CEO Rohan Sinclair Luvaglio told Gizmag earlier today: “Unlike many of the highly priced products being released, we took our time to develop something out of the ordinary with real attention to detail. “
“I didn't want us to simply re-house a laptop into a diamond studded casing, or diamond encrust the entire thing simply to make it expensive. We've put thought in from the keyboard down to the power charger. There is an integrated screen cleaning device and a very rare coloured diamond piece of jewellery that doubles up as the power button when placed into the laptop and also acts as security identification. We have used diamonds elsewhere but have given them purpose.”
According to Luvaglio, “the brand is committed to re-defining luxury in a few sectors, technology being one of them..........."
(Excerpt) Read more at gizmag.com ...
It could also serve coffee and in emergency doubles up as a bidet.
I guess the thinking is that if the price is that high, they don't have to sell so many to make money.
It better be able to walk on itty bitty legs and find a way to make me food...
Wonder how fast a US bureaucrat could lose on of these?
The most important question is, will it speed up Free Republic.
I bet they wouldn't lose the "very rare coloured diamond piece of jewellery that doubles up as the power button when placed into the laptop and also acts as security identification."
Will it always be logged on?
.....and...and...and.
Too many people with too much money--and they assuage their guilty consciences by voting for Democrats, so other people can pay through the nose with taxes, which makes them feel better.
For some reason we got a catalog in the mail this week from some outfit called Posh Tots. You can buy a "Whimsical Shoe Armoir" for your kids for $49,000. Or a "fantasy coach" in the shape of a pumpkin for $47,000.
I can hardly wait to order them.
The future is now!
I wonder if anyone actually does buy one of these. Maybe the thing is just a publicity stunt.
If I had a million $$$ I wouldn't use it on a laptop...I'd run for President. ;)
Yes, here's Posh Tots online. You can get a Redbeard's Revenge Pirate's Playhouse for only $52,000.
http://www.poshtots.com/catalog/product_list.asp?category_id=1109&heirarchy_id=2201&product_id=14871
I wonder if you could specify the guts, since I think the main cost is in the packaging. So you could have a MacBook Pro motherboard and hook it in and run MacOS X.
Unfortunately, this doesn't look like a viable concept. I looked at the pictures and it looked sleek but a little cheesy. If I'd been asked for the price I would have said about $2,000, the same as the Acer Ferrari or Lamborgini laptops. Even with quality jewelry integrated with the case I'd think $10k would be a more realistic price (and then I think it might actually find a market).
If you buy a Bugatti Veyron, a million dollar car, even the most casual spectator knows you're driving something special and expensive.
If you're buying this, well, I don't think anyone would notice, and just dragging it through airport security would be a terrible risk.
The 128gb flash memory for the hard disk is pretty cool, though. That does up the price although by a few thousand not a million.
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Dear me, no! Wouldn't THAT be tacky! We'll just fool you into thinking this hunk o' junk is worth a million!
The kids stuff is ostentatious, but this laptop is nuts.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
And it's going to run the legacy of CE ME NT with lipstick on it?
For $1M you could have a brand new, high end, state-of-the-art laptop every months for the next 27 years!!!
Publicity stunt. They saw the play the $1,000 NY Pizza got.
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