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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. 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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  4. 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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