The 24-carat gold MacBook Pro, with diamond studded Apple logo
By Conrad Quilty-Harper 
posted October 6th 2007 5:11PM
posted October 6th 2007 5:11PM
posted October 6th 2007 5:11PM
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i have spray paint...
No diamonds though?
Cubic zirconia will do just fine.
I too have gold spray paint. My sister probably has one of those bedazzler things. Put both of them together and I might have something more creative than this and oh yea for $74,998 cheaper. All jokes aside though, this is a huge waste of money. I think the company should provide security detail for you, where ever you go and use this laptop, otherwise its likely going to get stolen in a heartbeat. Oh wait thats right I forgot, the people buying this will have that anyways. I would rather spend a bunch of money on the body case for my Powerbook, that I'm going to be making out of carbon fiber and kevlar reinforcements, than on this thing. It'll be lighter, less likely to get stolen, very resistent to damage, and will actually look nicer than this gold monster and with the added benefit of not blinding me, with glare, if I decide to use it outside.
That's hot
Not so hot when Apple brings out new MacBook Pros in the next couple of months. That's the problem with being rich and stupid - you only have a couple of months to show it off.
It's every Engadget editor's wet dream
Quite right, they do get hot.
Especially with pointless extra layers of gold and diamonds.
All i could think about when i saw this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQ5VAhpiUuQ
"I love goooooooooold."
Well, gold is a pretty good heat conductor - perhaps it will actually help keep it cooler?
Certainly requires a CheckBook Pro
And you thought iPods marked you for muggings...
Ghastly.
The worst part is that there's actually a market for this monstrosity - else they wouldn't make it!
Fugly. I do wish Apple would make some out of titanium again, though
That Apple's delicious!
Quite pointless really, Mac or PC, by far Sony does the coolest looking laptop, and it doesn't need bling for bling sake.
http://laptops.engadget.com/2004/05/12/sony-bringing-worlds-thinnest-laptop-to-america/
That thing is pretty ugly. The placement of the keyboard is pretty horrible as well.
It can't be good, it's a Sony product. They sell their PCs with rootkits preinstalled.
Wow. They must think Apple users are really vain.
Oh. Wait.
Looks beautiful. However I'd put on the logo in silver.
"with an appropriately diamond studded Apple logo"
Really? The diamonds are easily the ugliest part of this mod. It would look tons better with golden Apple Logo and silver chassis, or golden chassis and silver Apple Logo.
But naaah, let's put diamonds in there and make it 100x more expensive, and uglier.
Do you want to see a luxury laptop done right? Look no further than Lenovo's Thinkpad Reserve Edition:
http://www.thinkpadreserve.com/
http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/08/lenovos-thinkpad-reserve-edition/
Apart from looking really great and classy (I want one!), it's also very practical, not sky high expensive, and comes with amazing direct tech support deal.
And it has no logo made of diamonds (thank god).
Nice, but will it blend?
those diamonds won't
actually...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pnonj_84Ju4
Those are not diamonds Andrew...
More importantly, will it play Doom while blending?
Perfect for the Apple Elitists out there. Arent the pros made out of plastic... how did they get the gold to stick.. or is it gold leaf?
I think they are made out of aluminum.
Finally,a PC with a good re-sell value.
Finally, a decent laptop for C-3PO.
Am i the only person that think that is stupid to coniugate the fast devaluating electronic devices that meant to be used, with expensive jevelery materials that mantain his value and meant to be displayed?
Even if i'm rich and eccentric enough to buy that, where i use that laptop? in a safe? gold plated laptop, swarowski usb memory sheesh.
You're not alone. But the people who buy this sort of crap don't like to bother with petty stuff like logic.
I think you can't put gold and silver together, it will turn both metal black or something..
You will have to use white gold instead
Doubt that, since gold is quite non-reactive. Sulphur will turn silver black, however.
I bet it costs $800 more than other solid gold laptops...
Johnny 5 would love this ;-)
all i gotta ask is what's on the inside? who cares what it looks like if it ain't gonna crunch your FCP vids uber fast.
man if i had that much extra money left over to put gold plates in, I would just totally max out the specs on macbook pro, and just get a desktop. Why go for looks when u can invest it for raw power?
What in the name of sanity is wrong with the world!!!! Just skimming the front pages of engadget just now I come across this totally unnecessary diamond studded profanity, only to scroll down and see an equally pointless $75,000 dollar talking swami?
Just think, for the price of this gleaming hunk of crap and that talking head, hundreds, if not thousands of people who have nothing to eat or drink and are literally dying could be saved.
I'm not saying that you can buy nice things if your rich, its your right to if you have worked hard for your money.
What I'm saying is paying obscene amounts of money for items that are so unnecessary, especially the laptop with no extra features is just so wrong its ridiculous.
Society is going down the toilet... a solid platinum toilet with a solid diamond handle, flushed with the melting water of the polar ice caps.
"I'm not saying that you can buy nice things if your rich, its your right to if you have worked hard for your money."
woops, i meant 'I'm not saying you can'T buy nice things when your rich....'
Knowing the way USA works, this will be bought with credit owing to our future Chinese masters.
"Society is going down the toilet... a solid platinum toilet with a solid diamond handle, flushed with the melting water of the polar ice caps."
Hahaha, loved this. Thank you, very appropriate indeed :)
Well here's what: every now and then someone comes up with insane stuff like this 75k Swami. It doesn't mean it's the norm, and if they try to sell it for 75k, doesn't mean someone bought it, or will ever buy it.
Same for this nonsense of a gold plated iMac. People will do weird stuff whether they're poor or rich, but.. just the rich ones get to do the flashy weird stuff.
How much does it cost?
That's the ugliest thing I've ever seen!
I want one.....
Thats quite cool... but i would never be seen dead with one *barfs*
I wish I could be more eloquent but I can't think of a better word to describe this thing thing than stupid.
Donald Trump probably has one already
GOld plating stuff isn't exactly hard, nor insanely expensive... I wonder how they did it on Aluminum though...
It is the diamonds that make up the real cost there.