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A Million-Dollar Laptop Created
aluminumangel writes "For those of you who don't know what to do with all your money, why not a one million-dollar laptop from the U.K-based company Luvaglio? With 128GB of solid state disk space, Blu-ray, and a detachable rare diamond that acts like a power button and a security key."
... and batteries by Sony! Dude, you're getting a bomb.
a one million-dollar laptop from the U.K-based company Luvaglio?
so that's what he wanted the money for!
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Now if we could just figure out how to provide one of these for each undernourished, undereducated child in Africa.
I would hate to lose that key.
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I am sure that it's the Blu-Ray drive that's responsible for the price. Seriously.
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Indeed. Why not take a $4K Thinkpad and dip in to gold, and then take that and dip it in platinum, and then take the whole thing and roll in spotted-owl feathers?
Better yet, just tape a check for $996,000 to it?
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Now Paris Hilton and company can really start distributing porn in style.
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I bet the owner will really feel special when their million dollar laptop bluescreens.
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I've been looking for something to complement by gold-plated Hummer.
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Buy enough servers to handle the load when story of a one single laptop being sold for 1,000,000 dollars broke on Slashdot.
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Computers used to cost millions of dollars routinely in the bad old days. What's new is that this is the first time that a million dollar computer comes in a form factor that's easy to steal.
Kick ass laptop to be the envy of your friends .... $1,000,000 ... $ 100
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one laptop per billionaire
Now I can save money by not buying a PS3
God spoke to me.
If I get it without an os it will only be $999,899.
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Yep,
It loses 50% of it's value the moment you get Windows up and running on it.
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I had heard that Vista licenses were expensive...but damn...
For one million dollars i would expect that it comes with Vista. You would pretty much cut it's value in half by installing Linux.
When you spend a million dollars on hardware, it's important to have a free Operating System, because you'll have no money left for anything else.
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Imagine what a beowulf cluster of these things could do.
I'm pretty sure that voids the warrenty.
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Yes. But then it would be a $999,200 laptop.
That doesn't have as nice of a ring to it.
I say we need to add elephant tusk too!
Is that all? You're clearly forgetting how much a couple shark fins, a tiger penis, a pair of manatee eyeballs and a bald eagle beak could add to the design of such a luxury item. It still seems like I'm forgetting about something.... Mmmm! Oh, and we could give it a black-footed ferret foot for use as a kick-stand!
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I won't buy one unless it's got a flux capacitor.
Imagine what a beowulf cluster of these things would cost!
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A $1M diamond is just bloatware.
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Yes, but I just can't see using it on the bus.
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