A Million-Dollar Laptop Created 404
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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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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No way.... (Score:5, Funny)
one.. million... dollars (Score:3, Funny)
so that's what he wanted the money for!
Re:one.. million... dollars (Score:5, Funny)
Can we put frickin' lasers on its head?
Re:one.. million... dollars (Score:4, Funny)
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Rare diamond? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Rare diamond? (Score:5, Funny)
Better yet, just tape a check for $996,000 to it?
should have spent R&D on a better webserver (Score:5, Funny)
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Better yet, just tape a check for $996,000 to it?
Better yet, take one of the One Laptop per Child laptops and sell it for $4 million (Only change a sticker that says "I paid $4 million for this!" on it.)
Re:Rare diamond? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Rare diamond? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Rare diamond? (Score:5, Funny)
I'm pretty sure that voids the warrenty.
Nobody needs more than a $640,000 diamond (Score:5, Funny)
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Also there are eagle feathers under the CD-Rom.
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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 casi
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Apple seems to do ok with larger screens, too.
I'm just saying, for a million bucks, I'd expect top-notch EVERYTHING. But I do agree, they can keep the damned laptop. If I have a million bucks to blow on a laptop, I probably also have a lackey to follow me around and type things into my laptop for me...
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Creating it is only half the battle (Score:5, Funny)
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Yes, so that instead of having the rest of the internet flame them for being poor, they can instead be flamed by the rest of the internet for having a $1 million laptop & barely anything to eat.
That would top even the 1981 Buick Roadmasters with $6,000 rims on them.
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Have *you* done anything to directly help undernourished, undereducated children in Africa? I'm not talking about voting for hypersensitive politicians with overactive tearducts, I'm talking about a
Forcasting the Future (Score:2)
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Commodities fluxuate in value (Score:2)
Man oh man... (Score:5, Funny)
With a price of $1M (Score:5, Funny)
Only one problem... (Score:2)
HEAVY DEPRECIATION
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Re:Only one problem...DEPRECIATION (Score:5, Funny)
It loses 50% of it's value the moment you get Windows up and running on it.
Give it a few years (Score:2)
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Of course that's serial number 001 on the TI. After all, the purchaser of this is a serious Early Adopter.
Something for Paris (Score:3, Funny)
power diamond (Score:2)
128 GB of storage (Score:4, Interesting)
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I'd be really impressed .... (Score:2, Interesting)
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But then you'd just spend every new episode of your life looking for a new one because you overloaded the last specimen.
(Que in the rest of the Star Trek jokes.)
128GB Solid State is not a big deal (Score:5, Informative)
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.
They should use it to run the website (Score:5, Interesting)
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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It also vulgar, there are people suffocating economically in our society, to think of the money that's being wasted on a fucking toy makes me sick, that people allow themselves to be dominated by rich people and absorb their ideology, when 90% of them will never ever be rich and the hyper competitive ideology is against their own interests.
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BSOD (Score:3, Funny)
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Actually it's a turquoise screen, or maybe lapis lazuli, now.
AWESOME!!111!!1 (Score:4, Funny)
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What I would do with One-million dollars (Score:4, Funny)
1 Million dollars is not new (Score:2, Funny)
If there's one thing that shows what's... (Score:4, Insightful)
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Sucker + Money = Woosh
Re:If there's one thing that shows what's... (Score:5, Insightful)
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.
You can't waste money (Score:4, Insightful)
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.
Re:You can't waste money (Score:4, Interesting)
True enough. But not all efforts are equally efficient. While the actual spending of money cannot -- itself -- waste anything, it can induce wasteful behavior. For example, suppose I spend $1000 hiring someone to stand on their head. By my spending, I caused one person to waste two person-days' worth of effort.
That said, I agree with you: this insane laptop is a great way to keep the wealth moving around. Its construction consumed about $2000 worth of actual effort, yet it liberates a million dollars from a concentration (i.e. from a rich person) to be spread around again.
Ditto with all luxury objects, for that matter. The higher the markup (i.e. the greater the difference between price and the effort to produce it), the more efficiently it dilutes wealth concentrations. Servants, meanwhile, are at the opposite end of the efficiency spectrum: low price but large number of person-hours consumed.
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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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Truly rich people reinvest their money to make more money and fuel the economy. They don't buy
Priceless... (Score:5, Funny)
Coffee to show off your laptop in the cafeteria
"Sorry, we're currently experiencing heavy
server loads. Please try again in a few minutes."... priceless
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Coffee to show off your laptop in the cafeteria
Better ending:
Spilling your $100 coffee on your $1M laptop... priceless
What a complete waste. (Score:2)
More seriously, I'd rather have a bad-ass server controlled by a laptop, and which uses the laptop as its terminal interface, perhaps with a OpenMOSIX-like distributed system.
WE HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY (Score:2)
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I wonder what their dead pixel policy is?
OLPB (Score:5, Funny)
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Wonder what the warranty is like.
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Oh it has Blu-ray (Score:4, Funny)
Yea But.... (Score:5, Funny)
One Word (Score:2)
But it will it run Vista? (Score:5, Insightful)
Fatal Flaw (Score:2)
Microsoft Humor: (Score:2, Funny)
J Allard: Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these babies.
Bill Gates: What do you mean, "imagine?"
Expensive... (Score:5, Funny)
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One million? (Score:2)
Colored diamonds, big deal. Just a case mod. (Score:5, Informative)
Colored diamonds, probably from the factory in Sarasota, Florida. [gemesis.com]
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 [usdoj.gov], 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.
And it still can't do what I want it to do (Score:2)
Run Mac OS X...
Benchmarks, anyone? (Score:2)
With 128GB of solid state disk space
How does that compare with traditional hard drives? I'd love to see some benchmarks on that. What does it do to boot time? Application start? Fun stuff like that.
Yeah, I know it's good to have because it should be more drop-proof than a traditional mechanical hard drive. But something tells me that you're not going to treat a million dollar laptop like a football anyway, so what does this do for the buyer?
How much will it be worth... (Score:2)
What about the warranty? (Score:2)
In other news... (Score:2)
In other news' headlines: A 10K dollars webserver destroyed and looks like it was hit with a diamond cutting tool.
Gizmag IT people proudly exclaimed to newspeople "We got featured on Slasduhhh...what's that SMELL!?"
Diamond bra.. also 1 million dollars. (Score:2)
This is just an example of someone putting a diamond in something. What's next me putting
Let me get this straight... (Score:2)
There a detachable diamond acting as the security key for a $1 000 000 laptop. Who thinks up this stuff? I can't think of a scenario where having a precious stone as the security key for the laptop is a good idea. If the key gets stolen you're SOL, if you lose the key you're SOL, and to replace the key will probably cost hundreds (if not thousands) of dollars.
Rare diamond (Score:2)
Early April Fools? (Score:5, Insightful)
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 [most-expensive.net] - 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.
I wouldn't want it. (Score:3, Interesting)
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)
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Exactly what I was thinking! Moreover, E17's bling bling look would suit that laptop really well. Perhaps Novell will use it in their next ad campaign?
' [...] And I'm Linux, yo'
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That doesn't have as nice of a ring to it.
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seriously, who cares? i can glue diamonds to a Corvair and call it a million dollar car, but it's still a POS.
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