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A Million-Dollar Laptop Created

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the conspicuous-consumption dept.

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."

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  1. Rare diamond? by dkoulomzin · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm not that impressed when we talk about how expensive a laptop is on account of its rare diamond!

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  2. Re:Creating it is only half the battle by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Not a problem since the cost is related to the diamond...which is mined in Africa by said poor child

  3. If there's one thing that shows what's... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ...wrong with this world, this is it. Some people control enough resources that they can WASTE a million on one laptop, while others could build 10000 laptops with that money. Don't get me wrong: The rich should lead comfortable, even luxurious lives, but this is just wasteful. Its only value is in showing the ridiculous amount of resources that are at the buyers disposal, by wasting them on something that will be out-of-date in at most a year.

    1. Re:If there's one thing that shows what's... by Bluesman · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Nah, it's what's right with the world.

      How else would you separate very rich and foolish people from their money, aside from forcibly taking it?

      The best thing about this is that rich people create incentives for creativity and growth, and spending on luxury items just fuels that.

      Think about the laptop maker, web designer, advertising agency -- all of the people who make a living off of the sale of just one of these.

      Plus, the $1,000,000 is obviously far better off in the hands of somebody willing to use it for a laptop selling business than someone who would spend it on a diamond laptop.

      Besides, someone who is dirt poor in Africa would say the same thing about you. Why do you need to spend an amount of money that would supply a lifetime of food on a computer in the first place?

      In a perfect world, there would be no market for $1,000,000 laptops because everyone would be busy creating more wealth by curing diseases and solving energy crises. Since that's never going to happen, this is the next best thing.

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    2. Re:If there's one thing that shows what's... by WhiplashII · · Score: 4, Insightful

      but this is just wasteful.

      Incorrect. This is one of the most useful items in society, a way to transfer economic power from the idiots that buy gold plated laptops to the genius that is selling one...

      Let's face it, we need to remove as much money as possible from anyone that would buy one of these!

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  4. But it will it run Vista? by splatterboy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I hate to use cars as an analogy but TFA doesn't mention OS, and if its just a windows box - that would make it the computing version of a Ferrari chassis and body with a Chevy/Ford/VW engine... For a cool million I would think it should have Linux/Mac/MS running virtual with a Jeff Han/perceptive pixel gui... Seriously - if the craftsmanship and precious materials are the only metric here - its just a case-mod. Who made the mobo and cpu?

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  5. You can't waste money by NotQuiteReal · · Score: 3, Insightful
    The notion that money can be wasted (by spending it) is stupid.

    It all contributes to the economy, which helps generate more money. In this case, I am sure a lot of the million dollars for the laptop goes into the cost of goods - supporting everyone in the supply chain from the diamond miners to the jewelers and artisans who created the art/wasteful object of your loathing. Then there is the "profit". Either way the money is somewhere. For all you know the money might end up for some use for which you do approve.

    There is no difference, in principle, on people "wasting" money on luxury items than there is spending money any other way. When it comes right down to it, nobody "needs" anything more than food and shelter, assuming the world even "needs" people at all.

    There is a continuum from needs-wants-excess/your definition of waste.

    Personally I would not buy a million dollar laptop, either, however I think it is awesome that it is possible for someone to be able to do that if they so choose.

    If you think there is something wrong with this world now, you'll rue the day that it is ruled by people who think they know best how to run it for everyone else.

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  6. Early April Fools? by sherpajohn · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I checked the website - nothing there but a box with focus to enter something. A contact page. An address in London, that does not really parse as a street but a place. Google search on the company name yields nothing but this laptop - all based on the same article. Google search on the CEO yields a now "private" page on a site the "connects" business people. The cached page has a bunch of luxury names in it. Googel images even has a cached image of a young guy leaning on a car.

    This sounds like viral cow pies publicity grab or April Fools to me. There's a $350,000+ laptop noted here: http://most-expensive.net/laptop-world - and its covered in gems. There's no way you can justify technology alone making this worth anywhere near $100,000 much less $1,000,000. I call BU-double-hockey-sticks on this story.

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  7. Re:one.. million... dollars by Arwing · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I would hope one million dollars laptop will get you lifetime upgrade option.. .. A new hardwares spec every 6 month?