Nearly a month after
Lenovo teased us with its
Olympic-inspired laptop, and just days after loosing a
bevy of Santa Rosa
machines on the world, Lenovo is catching our eyes once more with an admittedly lacking teaser site for a Reserve Edition ThinkPad. The very non-interactive website sports an annoying background track, a cheesy selection of closeup leathermaking shots, and absolutely zero information about an actual computer. Of course, one could theorize that the firm has a leather-clad lappie in the pipeline for the affluent set, but it's not like you can't
get that already. Nevertheless, this certainly isn't the first nor the last time we'll see such
tease acts in order to hype up a currently unreleased product, but hopefully the deets on this one will end up surfacing as quickly as those on the
Beijing machine did.
[Via
LenovoBlogs, thanks to everyone who sent this in]
posted May 23rd 2007 12:33PM
So, as a species, we can't be happy with mass-produced items, because they make everyone equal? We have to have the Director's Cut, the Special Super-Deluxe Edition, the Limited Issue, Signed AND Numbered, Extreme Edition, and now apparently there's a "Reserve" Edition of laptops, even though the term used to apply to wine...
...the cover is handcrafted by elves in the Black Forest, using only the finest, rich, Corinthian baby sealskin leather... lovingly hand-stiched using thread derived from the fur of endangered species, by 100% Geniune Chinese Slave Labor...
The CPU in your laptop was not made by some anonymous machine, but rather all 300 million transistors were HAND-CARVED using SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS from a SOLID BLOCK OF SILICON by Mr. James Intel himself, with each processor die hand-signed in his own blood...
...each unit is carefully assembled by master craftsmen and ornamented with special Limited Edition neon pink EyeBleed™ LEDs. Embedded into the leather, Geniune Swarovski™ Crystal Rhinestones spell out the word "BLING" in large decorative script.
...for the discriminating laptop user of wealth and taste.
leather and/or wood + gadgets = awesome in my book