Ego's Bentley laptop is gonna make you so cool, we swear
By Paul Miller 
posted Jul 21st 2008 4:02PM
posted Jul 21st 2008 4:02PM
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Does this have 1000BHP like the Veyron?
warning...rant ahead:
Please note: This is a Bentley laptop, not a Bugatti. Thanks for trying to be clever and funny, but you failed...I just can't stand it when people try and bust out knowledge about a topic they are unfamiliar with! Can we institute a new level of more intelligent, funnier commentary from here on out? Anyone with me?
/rant
This is a prime example of modern jackass.
See more here: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=modern+jackass
DAMNIT! I hit the damn button once! ONCE I TELL YOU! Fix this buggy shit ASAP Engadget or...I'll have to migrate to a competitor!
...not to be confused with the "postmodern" jackass...or any jackass that looks up definitions on urban dictionary :)
@Colin B : WTF? This is a prime example of modern jackass. :)
OneLove: I agree, it was a perfect way to sum up my point. Not sure if you thought I was being sarcastic, or what. Also...it shows 5 of the exact same comment of mine thanking Jason on my screen, and I'm tired of this crappy comment system. Does this not show up for everyone else?
your name is mr. tech and you have an automobile in your photo, and you don't know who makes the veyron?
wtf.. give back my name Jason!!!!!!!!
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@jason (not Jason)
So what?
Not too spoil everyones fun, but:
Volkswagen own both Bentley and Bugatti and so Mr. Tech was right in a way and has shown he knows something about cars.
Holy crap folks, you missed the PRIME comedic opportunity here. You have three comments that are exactly the same and you fail to rate them so one is highly ranked and one is low ranked. Opportunity squandered!
Looks like an iBook G4 (shape-wise)
You mean the colorful G3 ibooks? The ibook G4's were square white.
Oops, sorry - yes, I do mean the G3 iBooks.
Didn't like the shape then, don't really like it any better now.
IF, Apple were to design a laptop like this, I'm farely certain, these dumbass Manhattan Blondes would buy em - in the name of all that is fashion.
Furthermore, I haven't been even remotely interested in Bentley since VW bought them. VW made Bentley CHEAP. Anyone making assistant Principal salary can afford one (here in NYC) for around $800 a month.
I drive an S550 4-matic and I feel I've got the better car when I end up next to someone in a Continental GT.
I drive a Hyundai hatchback, and I feel I've got the better car when it comes to not letting a box on four wheels speak for me.
Only in that it is gaudy and overpriced.
http://www.t3.com/images/variants/bentley(web)_w606w.jpg
We have finally reached the "reDONKulous" stage of laptops, my fellow readers.
I was wondering how long it'd take the krauts to make Bentley jump the shark. "Vat is ziss "understated class" ov vich you speak?"
i own like 5 of those. :P:P
I thought macbooks and iphones were meant to make you look so cool?
no the word ur were thinking of is tool
i know they sound alike, we've all made that mistake before
Just don't sit on it -- since it looks like a car seat and all.
It's durable enough to be sat on by an european. An american on the other hand... well, it'd be ugly
Doesn't really get any uglier than this.
Or Europe for that matter.
That's no laptop. That's a purse. Sorry -- _murse_.
i can buy a top of the line DELL XPS M1730 and still have enough money left over for that corolla i've been needing so bad and maybe even after that have enough money to buy enough gas to drive my computer IN my corolla from the dealer to my house....well maybe i won't be able to afford the gas but i would make better use of that money godamn it! you have to be a total idiot to spend this kind of money on a laptop with an odd shape, a zipper, and a logo!!!
i can buy a top of the line DELL XPS M1730 and still have enough
money left over for that corolla i've been needing so bad and maybe
even after that have enough money to buy enough gas to drive my
computer IN my corolla from the dealer to my house....well maybe i
won't be able to afford the gas but i would make better use of that
money godamn it! you have to be a total idiot to spend this kind of
money on a laptop with an odd shape, a zipper, and a logo!!!
You're obviously not their target demographic.
thats the fugliest laptop i've ever seen
I concur.
bleh.
now if it was an id or even a super-ego laptop, i might be interested...
If you have to ask the price you can't afford it!
In the ferrari drop top switchin 4 lanes
With the bentely laptop bag
money aint a
thang!
Spammah!!!
Too bad it's so expensive--grandma might like it.
this is obviously for the kind of arsehole that wears a blue shirt with white collar and buys a porsche jacket to go with his porsche
Holy crap! £10K? it better do my house cleaning and make food for me!
will this run office and messenger? because that's all i need. i have lots of money so want to spend it on a good laptop with leather and golden handslip for that reassuring prestigious feel. will this be a good fit for my aquantences with members of the royal family if i do have the fortune of being in their honor perhaps? methinks this makes a mighty fine addition to our collection of fine works, i really do. by golly, if i must say so myself.
And you know the sad thing about this?
Someone, somewhere, will spend the ungodly amount of money on it, just to say they have one.
What they failed to mention is that your purchase of this fine machine will include a mandatory donation of 90 OLPC's to the third world country of your choice.
The name of the company is a perfect fit.
Imagine how sweet of a desktop you could build with that...
or you could rent ben heck to build you a super duper slim laptop or something.
Oh. My. God. Scarred for life.
Apple iBook clamshell with a bentley.
baaaaddddddd mix :[
For 19,000.00 dollars it better be able to convert a 800+ meg avi file to dvd in less than 1min.
Then I'd totally buy it!
10 grand just so people can think you are rich dick. Using a dell and waving around a big wadge of cash around would be cheaper.
OH !!! How GORGEOUSSSSSssssssssss!!!...
I always wanted a luxurious Bentley-brand toilet seat! Who ever said wishing on a falling star never worked?! It's not as though Lowe's was gonna provide!
Anyways... 90210-TNG peeps will love!
Fugly. Why anyone would want an ugly laptop wrapped in a dead mother's (cow) skin is beyond me.
Nobody remembers the original iBook??
You people are forgeting who this laptop is targeted towards, Filthy rich white peolpe who dont care how much they pay for something no matter haw crappy it is as long as it has a well known name on it.
When I first saw the picture I actually thought Bentley was reduced to making bags and handbags. It just did not occur to me that it was a laptop until I read the title...
This is Spammmaaahhhh!
LOL.
also, the laptop is pretty redic.
fugly. Needs to be left behind in a cab followed by a full identity theft. (hint: try tinkerbell first as the pw).
Pretty neat way to steal money from rich idiots.
If this was a little rounder, you could put an axle thru it and roll it behind you on a tether. Truly mobile computing. Or add a motor, and have it pull you along.
It looks positively fab.
It looks positively fab.
So does that have heated and cooled leather like the cars?
That's disgusting!
I am amazed that I find this design so repulsive.
You just know that when you open this ugly mother, that the screen is just another orthogonal display, SO WHY THE CLAMSHELL, it's hideous. So hideous.
What I find so hideous and hilarious is that they chose sun-burnt PC beige for the leather. Such terribly misguided design.
They say there are no wrong answers in design, just degrees of right, but this falsifies that statement. SO WRONG!
Very attractive looking toilet seat.
If this thing was more powerful than six of my desktop tower put together, could make french fries, brew good beer from nothing but excess heat, and give blow jobs, i'd be first in line.
Call me when that happens.
I sincerely hope we really are in the beginning of the end of the consumerist nightmare.... I seriously can't even believe this will actually exist.
Is that just a old old Macbook?
You think my little chiwuaha will get comfy in there?
ONCE AGAIN, PCERS ARE SHOWN TO BE THE TASTELESS, MORONIC SHEEPLE THEY TRULY ARE. 10 year-old original iBook shape and integrated handle, underpowered, hideously ugly and running Vista. Wow. A fugly PC for fugly sheeple.
Yo who would really walk around with this shit in public.You would definitely look like a real wanna be. It just shows you how rich people are stupid with how they spend their money. I bet the shit probably has features u don't normally use, when something cost an arm and a leg it usually sucks.
Yes, it's ugly, it's way too expensive, the specs are poor and you'll look like a compete moron using one but what I want to know is how does it deal with heat? I doubt that the thick, rich leather is particularly breathable and I don't see any vents on it. Maybe they hope that when the smell of the leather cooking starts to make you hungry you'll turn it off and drive your Bentley Brooklands to Arby's for two Beed 'n Cheddars for just four dollars.
Looks like a fancy carrying case for a bathroom scale.