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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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I'm not that impressed when we talk about how expensive a laptop is on account of its rare diamond!
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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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128 GB of solid-state storage isn't that expensive. All you have to do is get a bunch of 1 GB microSD chips and put them in a big fat RAID, totaling under $2,000. So what's the practical use of this product, apart from conspicuous consumption?
Pricewatch.com lists 8gb for around $80 and 16GB for about $160.
So lets double the prices for whatever, and we are talking about $2500 of flash. Yes, too expensive to be a component on a notebook today, but really, the prices on this stuff is sinking.
the website referenced in the story is /.ed Maybe they should invest in a million dollar laptop to run the site from.
Anyway, this is Hedonism for the richest. There is no reason to have a million dollar laptop today, when the most expensive laptops don't go over 10K. The fact that there are dimonds on this thing just show that this is not about a laptop, this is about another pointless status symbol, like an adopted kid from Africa for some US celebrities.
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I bet the owner will really feel special when their million dollar laptop bluescreens.
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That's the benefit of such a thing...it's advertised as a laptop with an attached diamond instead of a rare diamond that comes with a laptop. This whole thing is probably an accounting scam to let you buy an expensive diamond, but reap depreciation benefits (ie tax benefits) because in a technical sense you bought a "$1MM laptop." This idea is as flawed as that diamond probably isn't :-)
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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.
...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.
Kick ass laptop to be the envy of your friends .... $1,000,000 ... $ 100
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"Sorry, we're currently experiencing heavy
server loads. Please try again in a few minutes."... priceless
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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.
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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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...
Colored diamonds, probably from the factory in Sarasota, Florida.
The diamond industry is coming unglued. They're not that rare, they're not that hard to make, multiple companies are cranking out diamonds, and de Beers lost an antitrust suit, so the monopoly is coming apart.
The resale value of diamonds is about 40% of list price. If that. (The phrase "dump value" is used in the industry.) Look on eBay for even cheaper ones. If you want real diamonds on your computer's LEDs, it won't cost you much.
This is just another case mod project, one with delusions of grandeur.
As it's /.ed:
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.
"Many claim to produce luxury goods but we believe that the true element of luxury is having something that says "YOU", that money can't buy.
"At present and from our previous luxury work, our initial clients will be chosen from this selection as we have already established trust.
"The range to be released shortly would allow the owner to become the creator and visit our showroom at two or three well known upmarket stores we are in discussion with, whereby our selection of materials, finishes and accessories will be available to view and a choice selected.
"The choice will be based on our selection but of course other colours and finishes can be done on request. We have access to diamonds that are simply rare and near impossible to get hold of, so are able to offer a very embodied choice.
"The presentation boxes are of course supplied and finished in the choice that is selected by the client. Exact figures I am unable to provide at present due to negotiations but will certainly be more obtainable then our master piece."
The first such masterpiece will sell for more than US$1,000,000.
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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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Yes. But then it would be a $999,200 laptop.
That doesn't have as nice of a ring to it.
I won't buy one unless it's got a flux capacitor.
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.
This issue is a bit more complicated than you think.
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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A $1M diamond is just bloatware.
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I Wouldn't want it, even if it were much cheaper and came without that diamond.
Here's what I'd expect from the manufacturer of a laptop at the upper end of the price scale:
- a bit more of a website than just a "contact us" form. For example, Spec sheets, driver downloads for every OS that can run on it, a support area.
and here's what i'd expect from a laptop that is THAT HIGH above the upper end of the price scale:
- full warranty replacement within 2 hours, 7 days a week, all around the world, with no extra fees.
- full toll-free phone support, 7 days a week, all around the world, with no extra fees.
- no matter what broke, the full laptop gets replaced, but with your data copied over. Even in case of destruction by fire etc (data recovery service included in maintenance contract)