Colorware offers up $6,000 Stealth MacBook Pro: it's really dark

Colorware's well known for offering up all sorts of consumer electronics in all sorts of hues, but the outfit has definitely stepped up its game with the Stealth MacBook Pro. This limited edition piece is an all-black 15-inch MacBook Pro with a matte display, 3.06GHz CPU, 8GB of DDR3 RAM, 256GB SSD, an 8x SuperDrive, zero gloss finish and a SofTouch coating that'll make it downright impossible for your fingers to stop stroking it. Reportedly, these will be limited to just ten units, and each one will cost a not-at-all affordable $5,999. See Apple, this is what you get when you voluntarily axe the BlackBook. Opportunity, lost.

[Via Engadget Polska]

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 4th 2009 4:13PM]

The 256mb SSD turns me off.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 4th 2009 4:17PM]

I love I can actually be in front page!

[Sly C Posted Jul 4th 2009 4:18PM]

same.

[robogobo Posted Jul 4th 2009 4:44PM]

Yeah, when you double the price of a computer just for a new paintjob, it'd be nice to bump up the specs a bit.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 4th 2009 5:24PM]

just think what you could blog with that!

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 4th 2009 6:25PM]

Whats the difference between ssd and harddrive?

[AMiSHPiRACY Posted Jul 4th 2009 6:57PM]

Erik, solid state is faster & more expensive then a hard disk drive. It's also less prone to mechanical break down (what with the no-moving-parts), but it has a limited number of times it can be written to.

Did I get that right, my fellow nerds?

[Gad Get Posted Jul 4th 2009 7:08PM]

@ AMiSH

More or less correct, although the limited writes is never going to be an issue, realistically. You did forget to mention that SSDs use less power and are silent.

[qwerty613 Posted Jul 5th 2009 12:20AM]

It's 256 GB, not MB.

[AMiSHPiRACY Posted Jul 5th 2009 1:01AM]

@ Gad Get

Appreciate the respectful add-ons. I felt awkwardly unprepared responding to a tech question (what with my name and all). Avast!

@ qwerty613

engadget doesn't always add an update section when correcting their typos. so don't be a douche, but rather, assume comments that are seemingly inaccurate yet still highly ranked have some merit.

@ Monster Cable

You guys suck and you know it. So fuck you, and America rules!

[looselycoupled Posted Jul 5th 2009 5:00AM]

For that price, it better not be the crappy OEM drive from Apple.. a Corsair P256 or OCZ Vertex minimum..

[Nick Meijer Posted Jul 5th 2009 12:01PM]

@ Gad Get, @AMiSH PiRATE

It indeed has no moving parts, so the real difference between SSD and HDD is that SSD uses flash storage (just like memorysticks for example). On the contrary, an HDD uses a (glass?) disc spinning around to read from and write to and thus is more prone to mechanical breakdowns.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 5th 2009 3:22PM]

I did the math- when you order a macbook pro with the same specs from apple, you end up with a $4,250 computer. So these folks just added the fancy finish and a "limited edition" label for $1,750.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 5th 2009 3:13PM]

So I did the math- if you order a laptop from the Apple store online with the same specs, you end up with a $4,250 computer. That means that these folks just added a fancy finish and a "limited edition" label for an extra $1,750.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 7th 2009 10:12AM]

You've got to figure in the matte screen too.

[Lando Calrissian Posted Jul 4th 2009 4:14PM]

That's a lot of megabytes.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 4th 2009 4:23PM]

I'd love to install mail.app in that machine~

[MSWUDB Posted Jul 4th 2009 7:01PM]

yeah specially since each gig is 1024egabytes!!!!
lol....
meh.. the specs to price ratio is such a turn off.... granted its 1000 for 8gb on the apple store website..

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 5th 2009 8:14PM]

What? No Avatar? I love that thing.

[iHakr Posted Jul 4th 2009 4:15PM]

that reminds me of the origonal black macbook...

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 4th 2009 4:18PM]

me too!
quite amazing this happenstance

[newreformation Posted Jul 4th 2009 4:43PM]

Good to see I can get a macbook pro with a Lenovo-style finish. :D

[LondonConsultant Posted Jul 4th 2009 7:28PM]

It's a ThinkMac.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 4th 2009 8:00PM]

yeah! a ThinkMac!

[doboy Posted Jul 4th 2009 10:02PM]

This is the only macbook I would ever consider buying. Those silver aluminum Macbook Pros on campus are just too much.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 4th 2009 4:15PM]

it should be It should be 256 GB.......

[TheWalrus Posted Jul 4th 2009 4:39PM]

i don't I don't think you proof read

[Onashi608 Posted Jul 4th 2009 5:49PM]

@ The Walrus

Lmfao. Well played

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 4th 2009 4:17PM]

ew. all black makes it look so plebian

[White Noise Posted Jul 4th 2009 4:39PM]

As opposed to your beige with Louis XIV gryphon corners?

Considering everything under the sun is now super glossy, matte black is more avant garde than "plebian".

Good day sir.

[on a side note, if I had 6 grand, this would definitely get me to switch from Windows...]

[Cy Starkman Posted Jul 4th 2009 6:33PM]

Plebian? What a curious word to apply to such a custom device.

I've been to these guys website before. That's no plebian effort my friend. What they do is something special.

U can send ur own rig/pmp/phone/console to them, it's cheaper that way, get a red MacBook or a yellow and blue zune or a pink blackberry with white buttons

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 4th 2009 8:18PM]

Can someone photoshop this notebook into a photo of the interior of a Starbucks? Before I spend $6000 on a colour, I want to know whether or not it looks like $3000 worth of douche-baggedness.

Otherwise, I'll stick with my regular MacBook Pro, thanks.

[AMiSHPiRACY Posted Jul 4th 2009 4:17PM]

jeff goldblum could totally sneak up on a cylon resurrection ship and upload a virus with this bad boy!

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 4th 2009 4:20PM]

Your doing it wrong

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 4th 2009 4:28PM]

no no, you're doing it wrong.

[SNP Posted Jul 4th 2009 4:44PM]

I lol'd none of the less

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 4th 2009 8:19PM]

except that he's dead, just like Tom Cruise and Tom Hanks... /somewhat obscure reference

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 4th 2009 4:19PM]

wow, they actuallly made a macbook appealing. too bad its still a mac, but the color is cool.

maybe next year apple?

[pukerocket Posted Jul 4th 2009 4:30PM]

Maybe next year they'll make a Windows machine?

PS Apple didn't really 'make' it

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 4th 2009 4:25PM]

Money ain't no thing!

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 4th 2009 4:35PM]

I'll just say it - that is hot. Crazy overpriced, yes, but... hot.

[Gad Get Posted Jul 4th 2009 7:14PM]

This is definitely what the Macbook should be. I would buy one if it was reasonably affordable (and there were more than 10 units in the world).

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 4th 2009 4:34PM]

I believe its pronounced "thang"

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 5th 2009 1:46AM]

Yes, but it's spelled "thing"...

[Raul7 Posted Jul 4th 2009 7:05PM]

You sure it ain't "thong"?

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 4th 2009 4:36PM]

If I only had the cash! I certainly would pay the price for the 17" MacBook Pro but I'd take a pass on the SSD!

I'd rather have a 7200RPM - 500GB instead of an SSD any day, I'm not a gamer so i wouldn't need the speed. Plus ever since I got rid of my LAST TRUE MAC, a 17" PowerBook G4 1.67GHz and splurged on my Dell XPS M1210's, M1710 and M1730 I didn't think I'd ever want a PowerBook/MacBook Pro ever again until I saw this.

This is getting my nipples HARD!

[Patlex Posted Jul 4th 2009 7:12PM]

Would you care to elaborate how the 17in Powerbook was the last true mac?

[amrkvati Posted Jul 4th 2009 8:21PM]

HIS last true mac. Not THE last true mac.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 5th 2009 3:49PM]

1st of all - typical fanboys trolling along as usual!

2nd of all - Weren't Apple the very people to proclaim the PowerPC SUPERIOR in every way comapred to an Intel Processor/

3rd fo all - Were you TROLLS even born yet to remember all the claims Apple made about it's supposed superiority?

4th of all - That's what made Apple the "THINK DIFFERENT" company that dubbed every other ODM out there boring WINTEL drones, just watch the famous 1984 Super Bowl Commecial (if I'm correct on the year it first appeared!)

5th and LASTLY - Wasn't the marketing geniuses that suckered every fanboy boy, and even YOU, your mommy and daddy's wet dream at the time, into believing everything they did was SOooo innovative while they actually copied everything from MS, and IBM at that time and point in history and rebranded it as an "APPLE".

That's why Apple still has had relatively small percentage in the PC Market until the last couple of few years because of you wet dream frat boys that have to keep up with the Joneses!

[loocas Posted Jul 4th 2009 4:35PM]

What is soooooo not affordable here? This is pretty much a standard price for Apple xxxPro products here in Europe. If I bought this black book in the US, I'd pay pretty much the same as I would for a regular MBP (with the same specs of course)...