Asus shows off W2Jc and leather-clad S6

We are tired, we are weary from all these laptops, we were thinking about one of Asus's new shiny laptops of leather: the S6 line. It's not going to be too much unlike every other laptop around (Core Duo processor, etc.) but hey, it's swathed in leather (which was apparently a feat requiring no less than 25 patents), man, and will sell for between £1400 - 1700 ($2450 - 3000 US). Asus was announced their new 17-inch W2Jc flagship laptop, featuring an aluminum chassis, subwoofer, DVB-T and analog TV tuners, 120GB drive, Dolby audio, and a rather unfortunate £1,999 ($3,495 US) price tag.

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[logic368 Posted Feb 24th 2006 9:17AM]

makes me think of mucus membranes. i swear one day they're gonna make coats and ipods in generated human skin.

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 24th 2006 9:48AM]

Low clock speeds. Its sad now that the chip wars have come to a end leather and car inspired notebooks fill the void quite sad.

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 24th 2006 11:45AM]

Hardley original, in like 1994(ish) Apple toyed with the idea of wrapping their 1400 series laptops in all kinds of exotic materials - leather, aluminum, wood, etc...

Pretty sure it's all in the old Apple industrial design book that came out a while back.

I'm thinking thats some seriously documented prior art, that probably invalidates... oh say 20 of those 25 patents ;)

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 24th 2006 12:25PM]

I've always thought that form should follow function, and that includes choosing the best materials for the intended use. Leather is not the best material for this surface. Sacrificing function in order to target a demographic with self-esteem issues is a good way to lose my business. Unfortunately, there are a lot of people with self-esteem issues so they will probably sell a lot of these things and this type of marketing will continue.

Chumps.

[ryan Posted Feb 24th 2006 3:29PM]

No one caught the Velvet Underground reference? Ah well, can't win 'em all.

Best, Ryan