Million dollar laptop coming from UK Luxury firm Luvaglio?

The latest piece of tech to join the "costs one million dollars" club could be the above laptop by UK Luxury firm Luvaglio if rumors are to be believed. There currently aren't any shots of the device in an open state, but there are a few pictures of what appear to be renderings of a piano finished laptop next to a slide-open box. As far as specs go, we're hearing that it'll have a self-cleaning 17-inch widescreen monitor with a special anti-reflective coating, a 128GB Solid State Disk Drive, and a slot loading Blu-ray drive, along with the obligatory diamond encrusted power button. Unless you sleep on a pile of notes then you don't really need to know when this beast will be available, and it looks like Luvaglio doesn't feel like notifying our poor asses either with its invitation only website. If you do have the kind of cash to spend on a portable computer that costs a cool million, then let us point you in the direction of the OLPC guys: we're sure if you were kind enough to donate 10,000 of the $100 machines they'd let you keep a couple for personal use.

[Via MobileMag]

[mentalsticks @ Mar 24th 2007 10:02PM]

>>we're sure if you were kind enough to donate 10,000 of the $100 machines they'd let you keep a couple for personal use.

that is a good point. People who spend big bucks on this kind of showoff items should think about the fact that they could also use that money to buy OLPCs for the third world or save hundreds, thousands or (in the case of those ridiculously large yachts) millions of lives with that money they throw away. Now how's that for impressing the neighbors.

[Jamie @ Mar 24th 2007 10:08PM]

Seriously, anyone that spends that much on a laptop should take a long look at the mirror... yep, there will be a sucker staring back. No doubt.

[S2Hedgehog @ Mar 24th 2007 10:32PM]

It's a great computer; I've got three. Nah, nah, I kid. even if I had that kind a money, I wouldn't be stupid enough to blow it all on that.

[Zadillo @ Mar 24th 2007 10:39PM]

Honestly, even for the market of people who wouldn't blink at paying $1 million for something, I kind of wonder what the point of something like this is. I can sort of vaguely understand people who buy a $1 million super deluxe luxury car.... but it seems like half the point of buying something at that price point is kind of to show off; but I am not sure if anyone would be really impressed if they found out your laptop cost $1 million, or that it would be recognizable enough that people would go "Oh, wow, that guy's using one of those $1 million laptops!".

[Clayj @ Mar 24th 2007 10:42PM]

Hopefully part of that $1,000,000 is to cover the cost of sterilization, so that you can't pass your obviously defective genes on to another generation of inbred idiots.

Anyone who buys one of these is gonna feel like a real tool in a few years when all of the rest of us have more powerful machines that only cost a few thousand dollars.

[Zadillo @ Mar 24th 2007 10:45PM]

Well, I don't think anyone is buying this with the idea that a $1 million is technologically that much more advanced than anything else out there. I guess this reminds me maybe of an extreme form of something like those Vertu phones or something. But even the Vertu phones are reasonably priced relative to something like this.

Usually I think if you're going to charge $1 million for something, you have to have at least SOME sort of justification - if not in the actual physical materials used (i.e. like those super expensive diamond-encrusted phones and such), then in something else that makes it unique (i.e. one of only 5 in the world, custom designed by some famous designer or something).

[Andrew H. @ Mar 24th 2007 10:46PM]

"Anyone who buys one of these is gonna feel like a real tool in a few years when all of the rest of us have more powerful machines that only cost a few thousand dollars."

...minus the diamonds i hope

[saboola @ Mar 24th 2007 10:48PM]

I'll take five.

[jo jo the dancer @ Mar 24th 2007 10:50PM]

C'mon, doesn't anyone remember this joke .....

How come the British don't make PCs?
They couldn't find a way to make them leak oil.

enough said

[Jean-Michel Decombe @ Mar 24th 2007 10:50PM]

We're clearly not yet at a stage where building or buying this kind of luxury PC makes sense. The technology is still evolving too much all the time. Maybe that will make sense in the future, at a time when hardware progress really slows down or maybe when the PC becomes just a dumb renderer/interactor client connected 24x7 at ultra high speed to a superintelligent, superperformant Web. Until then, why would anyone waste so much money in what will basically become a heavy doorstop 6 months later? Beats me...

[Clayj @ Mar 24th 2007 10:51PM]

Well, the comparison to a $1M supercar is fundamentally flawed, since a $1M car is pretty much ALWAYS going to blow the doors off a $20K car, no matter how many years pass. On the other hand, computers are always getting faster, smaller, lighter, etc. An original Apple Lisa, priced at $25K or whatever they cost back then, is much less powerful than even a $100 cellphone.

Computers are not jewelry, and as such it's pretty stupid to start slapping diamonds on them. I think the universal reaction to a machine like this from anyone who actually works with computers for a living is going to be "Are you fracking KIDDING me?"

[Jean-Michel Decombe @ Mar 24th 2007 11:06PM]

Exactly. Not to mention that a supercar is not just better looking externally, its engine is also way better than an average car's. The Luvaglio guys have no choice but to use computer parts that are available to any other manufacturer. Unless maybe they're building their own CPU, GPU, and whatnot. Hmmm, yeah, I don't think so either.

[kadajawi @ Mar 25th 2007 6:08AM]

Mh... actually... not so sure about that one. Those guys from Top Gear put up a Ford Focus RS against a 1970s Ford Escort rally car... Focus won. Noble M400 against Ford GT, GT won. Mitsubishi EVO VIII FQ against the original Audi Quattro rally car. EVO won. And except the Noble who lost anyway these cars are rather cheap, comparing to their racing ancestors which probably were more expensive. New cars are getting faster and most of all better (safety etc.), though of course not as fast as computers are getting better. Also the value of a good and rare car increases, opposing to that of a notebook.

The notebook does look good though. And the price will make sure that it remains rare ;)

[Carlos Montoya @ Mar 24th 2007 10:55PM]

The only people who talk bad about high priced items are those who can't afford them. Jealousy and envy, thats all it is and nothing less.

[Jamie @ Mar 25th 2007 12:19AM]

"The only people who talk bad about high priced items are those who can't afford them. Jealousy and envy, thats all it is and nothing less."


^^^^sucker alert^^^^^^

[WonderKid @ Mar 25th 2007 4:26PM]

Can you afford that laptop?Im not jealous of someone with that laptop.I can get a better one in a matter of months.

[Jean-Michel Decombe @ Mar 24th 2007 10:55PM]

Oh, it is also kinda interesting to note that an anagram of Luvaglio is: GULL VAIO.

[michael @ Mar 24th 2007 10:55PM]

I honestly wouldn't get anything but a mac.

[BrandonLehman @ Mar 24th 2007 11:03PM]

If I was going to pay One Million Dollars (Dr. Evil voice) for a laptop I would expect it to include the following.

* 1tb minimum solid state memory to serve as HDD
* 16gb ram minimum
* no less than 8 processor cores
* slot loading HD DVD / DVDRW / bluray hybrid
* video system with no less than 1gb dedicated memory full DX10
* It must run Apple OS X Leopard with support from Apple.
* ...And Vista of course.

I really could care less if it has any sort of glam on the outside. I don't care for such things. But it should be no larger than a MacBook Pro 17 inch.

* It should be powered by fuel cell technology. That doesn't leak or drip pesky water.

Now, if I had enough money to blow on one of these "luxury" laptops, I'd say screw it and spend a million or two more and design a laptop like I just suggested.

I don't think there's anything there that's impossible, just extremely difficult and expensive.

[Clayj @ Mar 24th 2007 11:04PM]

Jean-Michel: Exactly. I was just thinking earlier today about my Vadem Clio, which I paid $900 for back in early 1999... Clios are now selling for TEN DOLLARS on eBay.

Michael: Macs are the best PCs right now in terms of hardware build quality and features... plus you can run Vista on them now, as well as OS X. ;-)

[Michal G @ Mar 24th 2007 11:11PM]

I hope your being sarcastic?

Mac's are overpriced tech that you can't overclock or do anything good with.

Vista has "copied" osx so theres one part of the battle won. Even if it was a dirty way..

Sorry but apple is outright horrible. Why do you think they finally made us able to install windows on them. They know they would lose.

[kyle @ Mar 25th 2007 11:47AM]

except the highest end hardware comes out only for pcs... and pcs have been able to run OSX for much longer than the other way around. OS X got ported for pc and Apple releases a block from time to time. So far its only taken 2 weeks to break each one. OSX86. Yeah... it takes 20 years to get windows on an Apple, and its done vice versa in 6 months. But Apple's are unhackable, right? Don't make me laugh.

[Clayj @ Mar 24th 2007 11:15PM]

Actually, no, I was being serious. I was a Dell desktop and Sony laptop guy for a LONG time... but then the Sony laptops started feeling cheap, as did the Dell desktops. Macs are well-built and have cool features like backlit keyboards and METAL (not plastic) cases. That they can now run Windows is a HUGE bonus and I'm sure Jobsy took that into consideration... if I couldn't run Windows on them, I probably wouldn't own any Macs. (As for Vista, I prefer it to OS X. Tiger seems kinda stale now.)

[Michal G @ Mar 24th 2007 11:17PM]

Vista is perfectly stable on my custom built FX62, m2n32 sli deluxe wifi, 8800 gts 320

Dell is overpriced and does suck though ;)

[&& @ Mar 24th 2007 11:15PM]

"I honestly wouldn't get anything but a mac."

I'm pretty sure that for a million dollars they could remove the right button, and put OS X on it. Perhaps even a diamond-encrusted apple logo on the lid?

[Michal G @ Mar 24th 2007 11:16PM]

oh and not to mention the only good pcs out there are the ones that you build yourself.

this computer is way overpriced. No one needs an SSD hdd for personal use.

2 10k (well in a laptop one big 10k) would be fine.

[Bryan @ Mar 24th 2007 11:34PM]

You guys are so gullible.

All this is is free publicity. Nobody actually buys these things. But look, here we are discussing it on Engadget, talking about a company none of us have ever heard before.

[Michal G @ Mar 24th 2007 11:37PM]

You are right, and if you aren't anyone that does buy this thing needs to be smacked upside their brains unless they have miles of cash pouring in. And if they do they should just donate it instead so still get smacked ;)

[Asthon @ Mar 25th 2007 12:27AM]

Wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole, especially if it came with Vista.

That being said, I'd love a laptop with a SSD. It seems to be the perfect place for one, since they're compact, and more shock resistant than their brethren with moving parts.

[Leon @ Mar 25th 2007 1:15AM]

It's this sort of thing that gives the UK a bad name. This company represent the remnants of the aristocracy, a reminder of a time long since past. Have you been to their website? "We're not interested in 'mass production' or designing 'entry level products' - we leave that to others..." It makes me shudder.

To people who've said you should only buy this if a million dollars means nothing to you, that rules out pretty much everyone except the remnants of the aristocracy. In my experience, the only people who don't put thought into spending anything over $10,000 (this is not to say that people wouldn't put thought into buying something under this price, just not for everything) are the people who have never worked and likely never will, using up their dwindling fortune.

[kadajawi @ Mar 25th 2007 6:08AM]

In what cave have you been hiding? Aristocracy isn't that rich anymore, those people with money are stars etc., guys like P Diddy or whatever he is called today. And they do buy ridiculously expensive stuff... although I doubt the laptop is bling enough for these people.

[Leon @ Mar 25th 2007 11:32AM]

That was exactly my point. The remains of the aristocracy are the ones who don't care how much they spend as long as they seem rich, not realising that they aren't, or soon won't be. When nobody in your family has worked down about seven generations it starts to rub off on you. Celebrities, although I will admit easily admit that publicly they attempt to show that they don't care about how much they spend, nobody spends a million dollars without something in the back of their mind telling them not to. Half the time they do it as a publicity stunt "Look at me in my fast, far too shiny car and even more shiny things the size of dumbells hanging round my neck. i'm rich, buy my music". If Madonna (picked at random) bought a million dollar laptop that nobody memeber of the general public would ever notice, it would send her accountants running for the exit. You can buy a nice mansion in the countryside for that money. Also, celebrities aren't as rich as they try to make out, I know a lot of people with more money than 50 Cent, or P Diddy. $1,000,000 is a sizable percentage of most, if not all stars fortunes.

[kyle @ Mar 25th 2007 1:34PM]

one problem with your aristocracy theory: The people who gain money are usually the ones who spend it uselessly. People who were born rich STAY rich, and people who GET rich become poor. the rich ones know how to keep money, that's how they got there. The ones who didn't, now think they have infinite money, and become poor. This is why I hate Europe: 'cuz of kids like you, who are like "I HEART SOCIALISM" pfft. It makes perfect sense to tax the rich because they worked harder than you? Freggin' idiot.

[Leon @ Mar 25th 2007 1:58PM]

Just because you disagree with me doesn't mean you need to start flaming.

I agree with (almost) everything you're saying. In another 10 years or so, 50 cent will be another bankrupt ex-celebrity with a cocaine addiction the public's forgotten about. To an extent, I agree with you on the "born rich stay rich" theory, but not completely. People whose parents ran successful businesses, having been brought up with the values that their parents taught them will likely succeed in life. People who have never worked, whose parents never worked, whose grandparents never worked etc. are different. If you have no source of income, no matter how careful you are with your money it will not last forever. That is the aristocracy. The people who gain a lot of money in a short period of time, find themselves in the public eye, and have no experience of handling money, those are celebrities. They are the 1% of the wealthy population who enter everyone's minds whenever they think of money. Becoming famous is not the best way to become rich. Being careful with money and knwing which risks to take and which not to does. By saying that becoming rich makes you poor, you just told every start-up business in existence that they'll never turn a lasting profit. I think the problem with your way of thinking is that you assume that the only rich people in existence are they famous. That couldn't be further from the truth. As for your comment about European taxes, there is no way you're getting me into an argument about the capitlist model.

[Jeremy @ Mar 25th 2007 1:58AM]

I bet we see Paris Hilton with one of these. What a waste of money. If I wanted a nice laptop I would buy one from Voodoo PC and save about $997,000.

[Asthon @ Mar 25th 2007 2:39AM]

I bet we see Paris Hilton getting angry at hers when it freezes (PEBKAC, of course) and breaking/damaging it, or causing a generic debacle.

[David Gayler @ Mar 25th 2007 5:11AM]

"It's this sort of thing that gives the UK a bad name."

Isn't it the UK that has the widest gap between rich and poor of any 1st world nation? If you pay some people obscene amounts of money - never mind the black economy - they have to have something to throw the money away on. Better than hiding it under the matress!

[Albert Philip @ Mar 25th 2007 6:03AM]

My comment on this laptop

http://www.latest-gadget.com/2007/03/25/one-million-dollar-laptop-is-it-worth/

[adobochicken @ Mar 25th 2007 6:13AM]

only to suffer Blue Screen of death

[Greenline @ Mar 25th 2007 1:03PM]

Um - Kyle that make no sense. Regardless this Laptop is pointless if it is real.

[SOyuncastor @ Mar 25th 2007 1:49PM]

I would wait 3 months and buy it for 750,000

then I would check for the battery's number serie. I dont want my diamond to be melted because a defective one. :P

[jessew @ Mar 25th 2007 3:28PM]

but no really guys....can it run linux?

[A Walsh @ Mar 26th 2007 9:06AM]

What the fuck do you guys know? I work and earn 100 times more then all of you and you know what, I'll give a million bucks to charity and get a million dollar laptop because I have style and don’t want to own what you have. There are million dollar yacht, cars, mobile phones, drinks - you just don't know what goes on in a world that you will never be part of. If you're happy with plain boring shit then great, I'm not. You’re all so thick to see that laptops haven’t changed in shape so it won’t be obsolete, just upgrade the inside. And if you campaigners think before you speak products like this actually help the world because it’s not plastic and can be kept for years, the shit you buy is what causes the problems

[GorgeousGeorge @ Mar 26th 2007 2:08PM]

Dude, don't you have a couple of supermodels to be banging or something? Or a new Airbus to buy for your personal use? Seriously; why waste your precious time here? You are meant for bigger and blingier things!

[Welly @ Mar 27th 2007 9:30PM]

You, sir, are a complete tosser.

[Nishu @ Apr 1st 2007 11:42AM]

True, Following features are must.
* 1tb minimum solid state memory to serve as HDD
* 16gb ram minimum
* no less than 8 processor cores
* slot loading HD DVD / DVDRW / bluray hybrid
* video system with no less than 1gb dedicated memory full DX10
* It must run Apple OS X Leopard with support from Apple.
* ...And Vista of course.
butr apart from all these, i would expect number of complementary giftsfor my family to convince them in helping me grab this elite product.

http://www.gadgetsngizmos.org

[Fozzie @ Apr 18th 2007 4:51PM]

This is idiotic! Why would you spend one million dollars on a laptop... when you could invest that money, double it, and buy two laptops?! JEEZ!

[Fozzie @ Apr 18th 2007 4:54PM]

Oh and by the way A Walsh, what sort of dip-shit millionaire spends his time bitchin' at less fortunate people in forums? Answer: None. You couldn't buy your way out of a salvation army, moron. Have fun picking up my trash tomorrow! teh p0w3d