Tulip's luxury Ego laptop sashays its way to the USA

If you've had your eye on Tulip's line of luxury laptops but don't way to pay the extra bucks to import one (or take time away from your next European vacation to pick one up), you can now get one a little closer to home, with none other than Barneys signed up to deliver the goods in the US. While it's not clear if the six figure diamond-encrusted model will be available for your perusal, you can now snag the "entry level" model both in store (in New York, Beverly Hills, Chicago and Dallas) and on Barney's website for a mere $5,000. The big selling point on this one is the interchangeable skins, although while there's apparently more than a dozen available, you'll only get two with your purchase. The system's specs, not surprisingly, are pretty far off the mark from the price, with the Ego packing a 12-inch WXGA display, AMD Turion 64 processor, ATI Radeon XPRESS 200 M graphics, 1GB of RAM, an 80GB hard drive, and integrated WiFi and Bluetooth. But what are specs compared to the bragging rights that come with a zebra-skinned laptop?

[Via Gizmag]

[wellworththeprice @ Aug 12th 2008 11:50AM]

I can totally see this being bought for kept women by their sugar daddies. In fact, I'm pretty sure that's what it was designed for.

[Matt B @ Nov 15th 2006 2:29PM]

That has to be the gaudiest thing I have ever seen. And to think it was assembled by workers who don't earn that much in a year.

[mike @ Nov 15th 2006 3:39PM]

I dont think many doctors make that much a year.

If my wife ever came home with one of those, Id smack her.

[Ignacio @ Nov 15th 2006 10:12PM]

Reminds me of the clamshell iBook:
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=clamshell%20ibook&btnG=Search&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi

[thematrixexpert @ Aug 1st 2007 9:19AM]

nowhere near looking like a clamshell ibook
this ego it's a pc, therefore it will be highly compatible, reliable and totally cool looking; rest assure there won't be plastic melting on this one