The 24-carat gold MacBook Pro, with diamond studded Apple logo
By Conrad Quilty-Harper 
posted Oct 6th 2007 5:11PM
posted Oct 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.
And eventually their wrists are going to wear away the gold coating and they're going to feel very stupid.
I threw up in my mouth. Seriously. More than a little.
Looks interesting, but I would still have to actually use the mac, right?
How much extra to have "I am a gigantic douchebag" laser-engraved above the logo?
Never mind, that would be redundant.
Plated or solid? Oh, just another fingerprint magnet!
It's not ugly, as some are saying. You're taking someing entirely practical and making it something entirely luxurious. Which doesn't make any sense. Because rich people don't use personal computers, they hire people.
...A mac book pro is notorious for being light, and this, how many people would like to lift such heavy stuff around? ooo, dropped it, crush mark, get a new one...
A macbook pro is NOT notorious for being light (have you really done a side-by-side?). The 17" weighs 6.8lbs (minimum) and the 17" dell Inspiron 1720 (hardly the lightest laptop around) weighs 7.3lbs.
However this is hardly going to affect the weight of the unit, since there's probably less than an ounce of gold on the whole thing. Gold plating takes next to no material.
I would be much more impress if this Mac were entirely Platinum with diamonds all over. Every blinged out rapper in the world would want to own that.
Well, obviously just because one has money does not mean one has taste.
Wow, I'm disturbed by the recent trend of gold plating electronics and lining them with diamonds. First cell phones and now this... Seems crazy when the technology housed within will become obsolete in less then a handful of years. Regardless, they might as well have decided to build a little mega phone into this thing that screams 'steal me!' every 2 seconds. If I was the owner I would be afraid to take this thing anywhere and that would defeat the whole point of owning a laptop in the first place. Also, to be frank... this thing is quite ugly.
jeez; how much does that thing weigh?
Weather or not you like the gold color spending this much on electronics that go out of date is stupid. I agree with the earlyer poster who commented on how many starving people you could feed.
If you like this style why not save some money and use gold colored maylar with a thick clearcote and cut glass? Who would know the differance? Plus it would be lighter and once the laptop either goes out of date or dies you don't have to salvage the gold. Sheeesh! What some people will waste there money on. This thing costs more then I make in a year.
Regards,
Skon
I hear all the starlets are gonna be carrying these around (and dropping them no doubt) this fall...
Dammit, how overkill-y is that? Great, but overkill-y.
It'd be nice to have someone make a second mouse button instead of plating a laptop in anything. That's seriously ridiculous.
it is stunningly beautiful.
my only concern is whether or not the diamonds light up when the unit is on. how does that look?
the diamonds are a little on the overkill side. some sort of translucent gem; a one piece engraving that glows when the unit is active: would have been perfect.
"Get ready to sell your house."
That should have read "Get ready to sublet your parents' basement."
I've only met one Mac user who owns his own house, and that's because his trust fund matured.
Guys Guys. Calm down. This was the work of a single small entity, a friend of mine from the modding community. It was just for fun.
What can a PC user do that a Mac user can't?
Shut Up.
I saw a short little feature on the gold macbook pro on www.julib.com.
I had no idea what kind of comments were springing up around the net about this. Can one product really inspire so much debate among the people about global warming and the social strata?! Maybe we're onto something!