Smooth Creations intros customizable Wedge netbook

Smooth Creations' custom paint jobs certainly aren't for everybody, but if you're a bit tired of the current netbook sameness, you might want to consider its new Wedge model, which questionably promises to make a "powerful yet subtle statement." Apparently, you can either take your chances with a one of a kind design like the one above (seemingly from before they settled on the name "Wedge"), or you can shell out some extra bucks for a completely custom design. The netbook's insides, on the other hand, are considerably more in line with the usual netbook fare, and include a 10-inch display, a 1.6GHz Atom processor, 1GB of RAM, a 160GB hard drive, and Windows XP as standard (Vista is apparently also available if you really want to push things). Look for this one to set you back about $500, and no doubt quite a bit more if you want get one to match the paint job on your 1975 Dodge van.

[Via jkkmobile]

[allan @ Sep 18th 2008 11:57AM]

Is that to let people know you're nerdy and scary?

[Pumping_Iron @ Sep 18th 2008 1:07PM]

hahaha !!!! SPOT ON! c'mon, just get a netbook as it is.......waste of money for custom paint...makes u look like a WoW nerd !!!!

[OneLove @ Sep 18th 2008 2:13PM]

Nothing says, "I will kill you, then myself"...like skulls.

[Lowest Ranked @ Sep 18th 2008 11:59AM]

Wonder if I can have it customized to say Home Slice instead of Smooth Book Slice.

[Josh @ Sep 18th 2008 12:00PM]

i'm definitely getting a sweet wizard on mine, with bolts of lightning everywhere, and he'll be holding a staff that looks like a snake in one hand and a burning skull in the other

[Tonnica @ Sep 18th 2008 2:14PM]

And the wizard is riding a black unicorn with a rainbow horn, a warrior maiden hanging off his leg. And it's all happening in a snowstorm while fighting a dragon beneath a gibbous moon!

Invite me over when the paint's out of the shop, man. I'll help you install carpeting on the inside of the frame and on the keys. Everyone's gonna be soooooooo jealous of the NetWizard.

[Benson @ Sep 18th 2008 4:17PM]

Better than a sour wizard, I guess.

[Fuuma @ Sep 18th 2008 12:01PM]

Uh...isn't that just a Acer Aspire One with a fancy paint job..?

[sockatume @ Sep 18th 2008 12:17PM]

Yes, that's exactly what it is, and at a $100-$150 markup depending on what size battery they're shipping it with.

[suprstrpj @ Sep 18th 2008 1:03PM]

that's what i was thinking. how can there be a 10" aspire one for sale from these hacks when i barely could get the normal 8.9"? i call shenanigans.

[Andrew @ Sep 18th 2008 1:17PM]

+1

[Hellaphunt @ Sep 18th 2008 12:05PM]

Thing I hate about these is... they cookie-cut your personality. I don't need some fancy design to embody my personality. Some generic art to make a statement that you and a few others might share. And imagine surfing the web at the airport near someone with the same design. Thumbs down.

[Josh @ Sep 18th 2008 12:08PM]

no one else can have my wizard design, i'm copyrighting it, so don't get any ideas....i don't wanna risk looking like a chump at the airport

[Hellaphunt @ Sep 18th 2008 12:21PM]

You got it.

[DoomGaZer @ Sep 18th 2008 12:11PM]

Sheesh, when are these super-tiny-notebooks (netbooks, whatever) going to begin using the Nano processor developed by VIA? Or how about that original Athlon 64 that appeared to trounce the Atom processor in every way? When not slap one of those in a nice looking unit like this?

http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/17/athlon-64-2000-at-8-watts-outperforms-draws-less-energy-than-a/

[sockatume @ Sep 18th 2008 12:18PM]

There are netbooks using the standard Athlons with their famous performance. They get 1-2 hours battery life and make great hand warmers.

[Nick J @ Sep 18th 2008 12:17PM]

Yup. At least half the people getting this will go for the giant penis design. I know I would.

Its a conversation starter.

[Nick J @ Sep 18th 2008 12:20PM]

On how gay you are that you paid extra money to have someone custom paint your netbook.

[7on @ Sep 18th 2008 12:24PM]

Makes me want to bust out the airbrush and try my own hand at it. Maybe some dolphins flying through space.

[Chris @ Sep 18th 2008 1:22PM]

Can't this company get in some big legal trouble for using the Aspire One and calling it their own without so much as mentioning Acer?

[Benson @ Sep 18th 2008 4:18PM]

Well, supposing they didn't like, buy them or something, sure they could get in trouble.

[Allen Jazeera @ Sep 18th 2008 1:30PM]

So you have a choice between a "one of a kind" design ... or a custom design ...

errr .... so does that mean the custom designs aren't "one of a kind", or does it mean they have a giant database of "one of a kind" drawings and they only use each once?

[h311r47 @ Sep 18th 2008 1:43PM]

Great...netbooks with all the design characteristics and chic styling of 1980s Trapper Keepers.

[Ian @ Sep 18th 2008 1:48PM]

I don't really think it's lame to get an AA1 with a picture of a unicorn on it. You could even get a vine running along the left and right edges of the top, and a unicorn in the middle.

[Jon Acheson @ Sep 18th 2008 1:54PM]

How many laptops do they think Stone Cold Steve Austin is going to buy?

[landru28 @ Sep 18th 2008 2:16PM]

"Here dad, a new laptop with a custom paintjob of a skull on it. Happy Birthday!"

....."I have no son."

[Jason Litka @ Sep 18th 2008 3:09PM]

So, it's the same crappy hardware that everyone else is using, with an overpriced paint job? I think I'd rather spend the extra couple hundred on a nice dinner out.

[Quad @ Sep 18th 2008 3:57PM]

Now if the back of the screen was an eink system, that would rock! The closest thing I've done was buying an overpriced Speck case for my MBP and etched it.