Pure*Gold PC is just what you think it is

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]

[Jon Nelson @ Oct 30th 2008 1:58PM]

Good laaaaawd is that thing ugly.

[who? @ Oct 30th 2008 2:14PM]

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]

[Matthew Hilario @ Oct 30th 2008 2:15PM]

king midas touched my computer!

[Blaine Oliver @ Oct 30th 2008 2:25PM]

My god that graphics card choice is ghastly!

[spass @ Oct 30th 2008 2:38PM]

Ugly but...
That's the way a PC would retain most of it's value today.

[happy_penguin @ Oct 30th 2008 4:17PM]

It looks like something out of King Tut's tomb.

[Spartacus @ Oct 30th 2008 1:58PM]

Gold PLATED?

No thanks, I'll wait for the solid gold version.

[Samboini @ Oct 30th 2008 2:04PM]

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.

[MarbleMind @ Oct 30th 2008 2:17PM]

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.

[Spartacus @ Oct 30th 2008 2:35PM]

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.

[Samboini @ Oct 30th 2008 2:42PM]

Ah, you don't get it do you Spartacus! I shall simply buy one every hour, for I have so much money to burn!

[Spartacus @ Oct 30th 2008 3:14PM]

Or atomically decay as it were...

[Silverfrog @ Oct 30th 2008 4:39PM]

re: marble

That is, until someone shoots you with a depleted uranium shell.

[El Taco @ Oct 30th 2008 5:49PM]

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

[Krush @ Oct 30th 2008 7:22PM]

(shrugs and walks by ....) huh? .... but then again there are people who buy overpriced sheets of metal from Alienware ... so why not?

[Glenn @ Oct 30th 2008 1:58PM]

and I thought it was a toaster!!

[NHAnimator @ Oct 30th 2008 2:32PM]

Same here. I thought "Wow. Now I can easily get my bread that level of golden brown that I like so much."

[pat1202003 @ Oct 30th 2008 2:51PM]

Introducing the Pure Gold PC with toaster function!
Toast your bread, play Crysis, and go bankrupt all at the same time!

[Samboini @ Oct 30th 2008 1:59PM]

Investment / waste of money; it's the same thing nowadays.

[Backlin @ Oct 30th 2008 2:39PM]

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.

[thatrotierkid @ Oct 30th 2008 4:23PM]

hey with the state of the stock market nowadays, you'll probably lose money slower this way

[timmy @ Oct 30th 2008 4:35PM]

But for an extra 100,000 you can upgrade to Platinum

[TareX @ Oct 30th 2008 2:01PM]

The label reads:

"Pure Gold PC: made by someone stupid."

[Juxterium @ Oct 30th 2008 2:50PM]

I don't know, someone who manages to successfully sell one of these is probably a genius, the buyer would be the idiot.

[George @ Oct 30th 2008 2:01PM]

If you're going to go to the trouble of building a gold-plated PC, why put an 8600 in it?

[Random BSOD @ Oct 30th 2008 2:04PM]

Because after spending so much on getting that gold for the platting, your remaining budget only allows for an 8600

[MarbleMind @ Oct 30th 2008 2:03PM]

The name of that thing is an insult to the eye, let alone its design.

[Samboini @ Oct 30th 2008 2:05PM]

The same can be said about lepers. What's your point?

[initialxy @ Oct 30th 2008 2:05PM]

can i get gold keyboard, mouse, speaker and monitor in a bundle? otherwise colour doesn't match!

[GaryZ @ Oct 30th 2008 2:10PM]

I can achieve that cheap looking with much cheaper materials, haha

[Itsuru @ Oct 30th 2008 2:16PM]

It must cost a lot to look that cheap.

[gyung @ Oct 30th 2008 2:17PM]

I'd be more impressed if they used that gold to make it a giant heatsink.

[Chuckles McGee @ Oct 30th 2008 2:22PM]

Or a giant hamster wheel.

[gyung @ Oct 30th 2008 2:28PM]

Which power the fans.

[E. Leigh @ Oct 30th 2008 2:23PM]

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).

[strider_mt2k @ Oct 30th 2008 2:24PM]

Gold I tells ya!

GOOOOOOLD!
http://www.chronicleoftheoldwest.com/pics/gabby_hayes.jpg

[BigD145 @ Oct 30th 2008 2:27PM]

"Recession? What recession?" -Rich f*ck

[Patriks7 @ Oct 30th 2008 3:12PM]

Well I hope you know it's best to invest during a recession...

[Eric @ Oct 30th 2008 3:37PM]

it is, but who has the money to invest during a recession?

[MARSHAK @ Oct 30th 2008 4:43PM]

me and everyone else who lives in alberta.

[nanobis @ Oct 30th 2008 2:28PM]

But its not pure gold is it?

[Chris @ Oct 30th 2008 2:33PM]

Does the price of this fluctuate with the price of gold?

[strider_mt2k @ Oct 30th 2008 2:34PM]

Shudders thinking of a PC-backed currency.

[Chris @ Oct 30th 2008 2:39PM]

Gold is currently $740 USD / ounce at the time of this posting so this PC must be quite a bit of dough.

[strider_mt2k @ Oct 30th 2008 3:54PM]

Shudders thinking of a dough-based currency.

[Glenn Tobey @ Oct 30th 2008 2:46PM]

PSSHHH call me back when you have a SOLID PLATINUM pc that doesn't suck

[scoop1565 @ Oct 30th 2008 2:57PM]

Didn't anybody tell them gold is conductive?

[Lowest Ranked @ Oct 30th 2008 4:04PM]

Its only plated.

[Str1ker @ Oct 30th 2008 6:12PM]

"Didn't anybody tell them gold is conductive?"

...so is my metal case

[strider_mt2k @ Oct 30th 2008 6:32PM]

It's only a model.

(SHHHHH!)