Pure*Gold PC is just what you think it is
By Donald Melanson 
posted Oct 30th 2008 1:53PM
posted Oct 30th 2008 1:53PM
It's been a little while since we've seen a full-size gold-plated PC, but it looks like the advent of small form factor PCs is keeping this little bit of excess alive even in these economic hard times, and the folks at Plush Department have even managed to find it in themselves to provide a matching amplifier for its new Pure*Gold PC. From the looks of it, they've also managed to cram some reasonably high-end specs into the PC, including an unspecified Core 2 Duo processor, 4GB of RAM, a 1TB hard drive, NVIDIA GeForce 8600GT graphics with 512MB of RAM, and a generous eight USB ports and two FireWire ports. No word on a price, naturally, but, whatever exorbitant amount it is, you can just tell yourself that it's not just a PC, it's an investment.
[Via musicradar.com]
[Via musicradar.com]
and I thought it was a toaster!!
Same here. I thought "Wow. Now I can easily get my bread that level of golden brown that I like so much."
Introducing the Pure Gold PC with toaster function!
Toast your bread, play Crysis, and go bankrupt all at the same time!
Good laaaaawd is that thing ugly.
At least it solved the icing problem! I was never able to fly up past 40,000 feet before plating all my things in gold. Good old Iron Man... Where they added the fiction to science. [sigh]
king midas touched my computer!
My god that graphics card choice is ghastly!
Ugly but...
That's the way a PC would retain most of it's value today.
It looks like something out of King Tut's tomb.
Gold PLATED?
No thanks, I'll wait for the solid gold version.
Cheapskate. I'm holding out for the Rutherfordium version. With a half-life of just over an hour, i'll be the coolest kid on the block.
Living near an ammunition test site, I'd rather have an Iridium/Iridium-Titanium version, withstanding those pesky .50 cal rounds that occasionally dart through my window.
I think that the half life just over an hour means you'll be the coolest kid on the block for an hour, after that you're only half as cool. After a week you'll only be 1 / 2^168 as cool, and well, that's hardly cool at all.
Ah, you don't get it do you Spartacus! I shall simply buy one every hour, for I have so much money to burn!
Or atomically decay as it were...
re: marble
That is, until someone shoots you with a depleted uranium shell.
I'll wait for the Sodium version, so whenever my computer is slow and I get mad at it, I just pour some water on it
(shrugs and walks by ....) huh? .... but then again there are people who buy overpriced sheets of metal from Alienware ... so why not?
Investment / waste of money; it's the same thing nowadays.
Who would invest in a computer anyway??? Even if this is gold, it will probably lose about a quarter of its value in six months.
hey with the state of the stock market nowadays, you'll probably lose money slower this way
But for an extra 100,000 you can upgrade to Platinum
The label reads:
"Pure Gold PC: made by someone stupid."
I don't know, someone who manages to successfully sell one of these is probably a genius, the buyer would be the idiot.
If you're going to go to the trouble of building a gold-plated PC, why put an 8600 in it?
Because after spending so much on getting that gold for the platting, your remaining budget only allows for an 8600
The name of that thing is an insult to the eye, let alone its design.
The same can be said about lepers. What's your point?
can i get gold keyboard, mouse, speaker and monitor in a bundle? otherwise colour doesn't match!
I can achieve that cheap looking with much cheaper materials, haha
It must cost a lot to look that cheap.
I'd be more impressed if they used that gold to make it a giant heatsink.
Or a giant hamster wheel.
Which power the fans.
Can you imagine a Bill Gates and Seinfeld commercial marketing this PC?
Bill: "Can you imagine Windows on this, baby? It's gold, Jerry! Gold!"
(...)
(end Seinfeld reference).
Gold I tells ya!
GOOOOOOLD!
http://www.chronicleoftheoldwest.com/pics/gabby_hayes.jpg
"Recession? What recession?" -Rich f*ck
Well I hope you know it's best to invest during a recession...
it is, but who has the money to invest during a recession?
me and everyone else who lives in alberta.
But its not pure gold is it?
Does the price of this fluctuate with the price of gold?
Shudders thinking of a PC-backed currency.
Gold is currently $740 USD / ounce at the time of this posting so this PC must be quite a bit of dough.
Shudders thinking of a dough-based currency.
For that kind of money, you might want to lock it in a safe, and drill the safe to run the cables.
PSSHHH call me back when you have a SOLID PLATINUM pc that doesn't suck
Didn't anybody tell them gold is conductive?
Its only plated.
"Didn't anybody tell them gold is conductive?"
...so is my metal case
It's only a model.
(SHHHHH!)
Hello? Hi, I left my computer a couple of weeks ago becouse it was having some problems and they never called me back...hello?
But can it play Crysis?
Lol, I had to say it.
Lol, no you didn't!
"its gold its gold its gold its gold its solid...." wait, its plated and has an 8600....WEAK!
I picked up a few of these for the home theaters in my spare bathrooms, and I must admit, you know you've made it when your HTPC matches your toilet.
For the love of all that is holy, WHY??
Basically how it works is this.... the worse the economy does the more valuable gold becomes, so if the economy picks up this will loose value....
Do you mean 100GB Hard Drive? That seems to be what it says at the site you linked to, and the site after that.
http://fathomfruit.com
dude.. its the ron paul pc!