MacBook Air gilded again - that's two times too many
By Ryan Block 
posted Mar 5th 2008 2:44AM
posted Mar 5th 2008 2:44AM
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Thinking that almost 0.00000000294% of us are that stupid is an insult to humanity!
If you really want to get depressed, take a look at average browser market share stats.
or the election primary results.
It may freak out most of you, but if you could get passed that and realize that it is an artform and Bling-My-Thing seems to be the best at it. They didnt go out easy and just fill with one color, they hand draw this out in crystals! I just wish you could all realize that it is a wonderful artform, it is truly amazing. Bravo Bling-My-Thing.com! Bravo!
Art form??? Um, no. Craft yes, art no.
No. Not art, craft perhaps. But for my tastes, just tacky. Although this one doesn't seem quite as prone to making people want to stick sharp objects in their eyes.. But the picture doesn't show the full sparkly horror I'm sure.
Truly a product for those who can afford Fabergé, but prefer Franklin mint.
How to make a ridiculously overpriced item even more overpriced and ridiculous.
It actually matches my 'human' theme..
..but yeah, pretty much.
It was at least stylish, although the apple was a bit off theme. the previous was just plain ugly.
Optimus Maximus is the same thing. A rediculously priced toy...
Leave it to Engadget to give this publicity too.
despite the price, this is actually very beautiful, i like it.
what's that you smokin?
Same shit I'm smokin!
There's an easy way: just stop posting about them. Who the f*ck cares about a Swarowski MacBook Air. If you are so sick of it, stop paying attention. I know I won't miss it.
Speak up people, who of you would?
Come on man. Its kind of fun to laugh and complain about. Why do you even bother leaving a post if you think its so unimportant.
Well. What I was saying is that if the Engadget guys complain about why people keep tipping them about this, the best way to stop the tippers is to stop posting their tips.
This is the rich guy's equivalent of me putting a sticker in my laptop. None of the two things should be news. This is news just because of the outrageous price.
This is a technology news blog. There's nothing technologically relevant in the Swarowski-modded laptop. So why should it be here?
Wake me when someone makes a steampunk MBA (that'll probably weigh 5+ lbs)
Christ, how do you people find this garbage. Yikes!
it's probably the ugliest thing that i saw in my entire life. makes me want to throw up... I go now...
That is fucking god-awful, nausea inducing shit. Its disgusting on an aesthetic, conceptual , spiritual and social level. Its designers should be shot, their houses burned down and their bodies hung in the town square to serve as an example to all. The macbooks should be frozen in resin with the severed hand of the ones that made them and sent to the four corners of the earth to show what happens to those that pervert human creativity as a means to make over-priced consumer electronics, which are already an affront to the indigent millions, even more offensive in nature.
As unappealing as I find the technical specs of the macbook air, the design prowess that went into it is undeniable. They have gilded the lily with such thick heavy handedness that its collapsed under its own weight and now serves as a crumpled murdered monument to its wrecked previous beauty.
...is this why we have so many school shootings in the US???
Beautifully stated.
i think adding bling to anything is funny
still waiting on 'pimp my popemobile'
Wow.
If the Oxford Dictionary was looking for a new term to describe 'Tacky', they found it with this thing.
This is overkill. It was funny when the swarovski one came out, and the carbon one (http://theworldofm.wordpress.com/2008/02/29/top-5-gadgets-i-need-now/)but this is endless. And frankly, if it's bling for the sake of bling, then it's not interesting. Like I have some Mario theme stuff on my blog (http://theworldofm.wordpress.com/2008/03/04/mario-retrocool/) and then people kept sending me stuff they made up like Mario printed mugs and gold plated marios, and jewel-encrusted Marios. Guys, c'mon! There is a fine line between modding and and being silly. If you have so much time, help me with my PhD
wonder y ppl wud go thru the trouble of producing lead crystals, precision cutting em and finaly sticking 12000 of em on apple junk?
Apple is making it way too easy for us to make fun of them.
Apple didn't make this.
In fact, they are probably looking for legal ways to stop this atrocity right now.
It's not even funny now ))
the macBook Air is said to be out of stocks, why in the world they paint it??
by the way...
Is the MacBook Air really worth it?
http://www.maconair.com/the_pros_and_cons
Is saw it at Cebit... i was almost crying!!!
Does all that bling add an optical drive and few more USB ports? No you say?
Fail.
Kinda kills the weight advantage, eh?
I agree, it does violate the bourgeoisie appeal of the Apple logo. Totally.
That one actually looks much better than the first catastrophe. still, I wouldn't buy a Mac. too many douche-taculars with it