A Million-Dollar Laptop Created

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A Million-Dollar Laptop Created 404

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday March 26, 2007 @03:45PM 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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solid state storage, diamond "key".... (Score:5, Funny)

by gardyloo ( 512791 ) writes: on Monday March 26, 2007 @03:46PM (#18491837)

... and batteries by Sony! Dude, you're getting a bomb.

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one.. million... dollars (Score:3, Funny)

by User 956 ( 568564 ) writes: on Monday March 26, 2007 @03:46PM (#18491839) Homepage

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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Creating it is only half the battle (Score:5, Funny)

by Anne_Nonymous ( 313852 ) writes: on Monday March 26, 2007 @03:48PM (#18491853) Homepage Journal

Now if we could just figure out how to provide one of these for each undernourished, undereducated child in Africa.

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Man oh man... (Score:5, Funny)

by brennanw ( 5761 ) * writes: on Monday March 26, 2007 @03:50PM (#18491883) Homepage Journal

I would hate to lose that key.

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Re:Creating it is only half the battle (Score:4, Funny)

by CommunistHamster ( 949406 ) writes: <communisthamster@gmail.com> on Monday March 26, 2007 @03:50PM (#18491887)

So, would that be the OTTOALPC (one ten thousandth of a laptop per child) project?

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With a price of $1M (Score:5, Funny)

by w.p.richardson ( 218394 ) writes: on Monday March 26, 2007 @03:50PM (#18491889) Homepage

I am sure that it's the Blu-Ray drive that's responsible for the price. Seriously.

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Re:Rare diamond? (Score:5, Funny)

by Itninja ( 937614 ) writes: on Monday March 26, 2007 @03:51PM (#18491901) Homepage

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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Re:one.. million... dollars (Score:5, Funny)

by dgatwood ( 11270 ) writes: on Monday March 26, 2007 @03:51PM (#18491909) Homepage Journal

Can we put frickin' lasers on its head?

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Something for Paris (Score:3, Funny)

by theshowmecanuck ( 703852 ) writes: on Monday March 26, 2007 @03:52PM (#18491935) Journal

Now Paris Hilton and company can really start distributing porn in style.

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Re:one.. million... dollars (Score:4, Funny)

by Rude Turnip ( 49495 ) writes: <valuation.gmail@com> on Monday March 26, 2007 @03:54PM (#18491971)

BluRay lasers...on the read head, duh!

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BSOD (Score:3, Funny)

by phasm42 ( 588479 ) writes: on Monday March 26, 2007 @03:58PM (#18492023)

I bet the owner will really feel special when their million dollar laptop bluescreens.

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AWESOME!!111!!1 (Score:4, Funny)

by noewun ( 591275 ) writes: on Monday March 26, 2007 @03:58PM (#18492031) Journal

I've been looking for something to complement by gold-plated Hummer.

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What I would do with One-million dollars (Score:4, Funny)

by Enrique1218 ( 603187 ) writes: on Monday March 26, 2007 @03:59PM (#18492059) Journal

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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1 Million dollars is not new (Score:2, Funny)

by jdigriz ( 676802 ) writes: on Monday March 26, 2007 @04:00PM (#18492063)

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.

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should have spent R&D on a better webserver (Score:5, Funny)

by Brigadier ( 12956 ) writes: on Monday March 26, 2007 @04:01PM (#18492073)

Sorry, we're currently experiencing heavy server loads. Please try again in a few minutes.
should have spent the $996,000 for a better web server

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Re:128 GB of storage (Score:2, Funny)

by darjen ( 879890 ) writes: on Monday March 26, 2007 @04:01PM (#18492085)

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.

How in the hell are you gonna get that to fit in a small enough form factor though?

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Priceless... (Score:5, Funny)

by xtracto ( 837672 ) writes: on Monday March 26, 2007 @04:01PM (#18492089) Journal

Kick ass laptop to be the envy of your friends .... $1,000,000
Coffee to show off your laptop in the cafeteria ... $ 100
"Sorry, we're currently experiencing heavy
server loads. Please try again in a few minutes."... priceless

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OLPB (Score:5, Funny)

by IchBinEinPenguin ( 589252 ) writes: on Monday March 26, 2007 @04:05PM (#18492141)

one laptop per billionaire

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Oh it has Blu-ray (Score:4, Funny)

by CrazyJim1 ( 809850 ) writes: on Monday March 26, 2007 @04:09PM (#18492181) Journal

Now I can save money by not buying a PS3

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Yea But.... (Score:5, Funny)

by semi-old-geek ( 791138 ) writes: on Monday March 26, 2007 @04:10PM (#18492185)

If I get it without an os it will only be $999,899.

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Microsoft Humor: (Score:2, Funny)

by davidwr ( 791652 ) writes: on Monday March 26, 2007 @04:16PM (#18492291) Homepage Journal

Overheard in a Microsoft executive washroom:

J Allard: Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these babies.
Bill Gates: What do you mean, "imagine?"

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Re:Only one problem...DEPRECIATION (Score:5, Funny)

by thewils ( 463314 ) writes: on Monday March 26, 2007 @04:18PM (#18492327) Journal

Yep,

It loses 50% of it's value the moment you get Windows up and running on it.

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Expensive... (Score:5, Funny)

by Arceliar ( 895609 ) writes: on Monday March 26, 2007 @04:20PM (#18492361)

I had heard that Vista licenses were expensive...but damn...

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Re:But... (Score:1, Funny)

by swehack ( 975617 ) writes: on Monday March 26, 2007 @04:20PM (#18492365)

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.

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Re:But... (Score:5, Funny)

by saskboy ( 600063 ) writes: on Monday March 26, 2007 @04:34PM (#18492553) Homepage Journal

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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Re:Rare diamond? (Score:5, Funny)

by anotherlogan ( 935804 ) writes: on Monday March 26, 2007 @04:34PM (#18492559) Homepage

Imagine what a beowulf cluster of these things could do.

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Re:Rare diamond? (Score:5, Funny)

by Joebert ( 946227 ) writes: on Monday March 26, 2007 @04:38PM (#18492613) Homepage

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?

I'm pretty sure that voids the warrenty.

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Re:But... (Score:3, Funny)

by FunkyELF ( 609131 ) writes: on Monday March 26, 2007 @04:45PM (#18492741)

Yes. But then it would be a $999,200 laptop.

That doesn't have as nice of a ring to it.

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Re:Creating it is only half the battle (Score:5, Funny)

by FunkyELF ( 609131 ) writes: on Monday March 26, 2007 @04:47PM (#18492769)

You've got a point. They could just "bring their work home with them" and duct-tape it to their OLPC laptop.

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Re:Priceless... (Score:3, Funny)

by The_DoubleU ( 603071 ) writes: on Monday March 26, 2007 @04:50PM (#18492807)

Ah, you are just jealous because you didn't get an invite!

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Re:Rare diamond? (Score:2, Funny)

by modecx ( 130548 ) writes: on Monday March 26, 2007 @04:52PM (#18492833)

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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No way.... (Score:5, Funny)

by CasperIV ( 1013029 ) writes: on Monday March 26, 2007 @05:00PM (#18492929)

I won't buy one unless it's got a flux capacitor.

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Re:Expensive... (Score:5, Funny)

by Glowing Fish ( 155236 ) writes: on Monday March 26, 2007 @05:02PM (#18492963) Homepage

You are exaggerating, it also includes Office.

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Re:Rare diamond? (Score:5, Funny)

by Dannon ( 142147 ) writes: on Monday March 26, 2007 @05:15PM (#18493139) Journal

Imagine what a beowulf cluster of these things would cost!

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Re:Priceless... (Score:4, Funny)

by IntergalacticWalrus ( 720648 ) writes: on Monday March 26, 2007 @06:04PM (#18493981)

Kick ass laptop to be the envy of your friends .... $1,000,000
Coffee to show off your laptop in the cafeteria ... $ 100

Better ending:
Spilling your $100 coffee on your $1M laptop... priceless

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Nobody needs more than a $640,000 diamond (Score:5, Funny)

by EmbeddedJanitor ( 597831 ) writes: on Monday March 26, 2007 @06:21PM (#18494189)

A $1M diamond is just bloatware.

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Re:Article text (Score:3, Funny)

by cshark ( 673578 ) writes: on Monday March 26, 2007 @09:10PM (#18495941)

Yes, but I just can't see using it on the bus.

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solid state storage, diamond "key".... (Score:5, Funny)

one.. million... dollars (Score:3, Funny)

Creating it is only half the battle (Score:5, Funny)

Man oh man... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Creating it is only half the battle (Score:4, Funny)

With a price of $1M (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Rare diamond? (Score:5, Funny)

Re:one.. million... dollars (Score:5, Funny)

Something for Paris (Score:3, Funny)

Re:one.. million... dollars (Score:4, Funny)

BSOD (Score:3, Funny)

AWESOME!!111!!1 (Score:4, Funny)

What I would do with One-million dollars (Score:4, Funny)

1 Million dollars is not new (Score:2, Funny)

should have spent R&D on a better webserver (Score:5, Funny)

Re:128 GB of storage (Score:2, Funny)

Priceless... (Score:5, Funny)

OLPB (Score:5, Funny)

Oh it has Blu-ray (Score:4, Funny)

Yea But.... (Score:5, Funny)

Microsoft Humor: (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Only one problem...DEPRECIATION (Score:5, Funny)

Expensive... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:But... (Score:1, Funny)

Re:But... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Rare diamond? (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Rare diamond? (Score:5, Funny)

Re:But... (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Creating it is only half the battle (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Priceless... (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Rare diamond? (Score:2, Funny)

No way.... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Expensive... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Rare diamond? (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Priceless... (Score:4, Funny)

Nobody needs more than a $640,000 diamond (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Article text (Score:3, Funny)

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