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]

[Edmunn Posted Jul 4th 2009 4:38PM]

This has been available for a while, hasn't it?
It was on there on Friday, I know that for sure, my mate saw it.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 4th 2009 4:48PM]

seriously, "My mate saw it?"

that's even worse than saying "my baby's daddy"

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 4th 2009 5:31PM]

I'm pretty sure "mate" refers to "friend", in this case.

[howdarestthou Posted Jul 4th 2009 5:33PM]

@murmermer: Seriously?

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 4th 2009 5:39PM]

This is AMERICA. Use our words and their meanings only.

[blueskyv201 Posted Jul 4th 2009 5:46PM]

This is engadget, a tech blog not restricted to culturally-insensitive American.

[Muhammad Oli Posted Jul 4th 2009 5:55PM]

@dsteve303: Wow I didn't realise the internet was located in America! Wow, I've been overseas!

[table Posted Jul 4th 2009 6:20PM]

@bluesky; you know, we're not all douche bags, just the really vocal ones.
@dsteve: it's people like you that give us Americans that stupid, ignorant image.

[KarlW Posted Jul 4th 2009 6:55PM]

+1 to murmermer

That was fantastic. Too bad you meant it.

[Anticrawl Posted Jul 4th 2009 9:15PM]

Ahh but Engadget is under Weblogs which is owned by AOL. That and the US technically still "owns" the internet in figurative sense per the last world court ruling. If you disagree go take a look at the recent internet map, provided you are literate enough to read it.

[robott Posted Jul 4th 2009 9:26PM]

@dsteve303: Seriously man, do you even know your history? It's people like you who make your own country a bad name. It's americans like you who start wars to profit from selling weapons and structural damages.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 5th 2009 6:28AM]

Dude, this is /not/ America.
This is the internet.

Chill the frick out.

[Samurai Jack Posted Jul 4th 2009 4:41PM]

"That. . . is really bad for the eyes."

Buy this and you'll have to spend the next year dead for tax reasons.

[Hazman Posted Jul 4th 2009 4:56PM]

At least it won't crash you into the sun / contain a morphing alien commander.

[Augmented Insanity Posted Jul 4th 2009 4:41PM]

Big and black. Just how I like them.

[newreformation Posted Jul 4th 2009 4:45PM]

Please no.... this is getting as bad as youtube.....

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 4th 2009 6:36PM]

That's what she said!!

[waynema Posted Jul 4th 2009 4:50PM]

er.... please change it back to 256GB

[ch3burashka Posted Jul 4th 2009 4:52PM]

Dumb.

[Passarinhuu Posted Jul 4th 2009 5:00PM]

I bet i could generate frickin' black holes with that thing! $6.000 black holes, but still...

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 4th 2009 5:02PM]

so people b*tch about apple charging MORE for the black macbook when it first came out, and now people b*tch about Apple taking it away?

[howdarestthou Posted Jul 4th 2009 5:35PM]

People bitch about everything. Even bitching, apparently.

[stubby boardman Posted Jul 4th 2009 6:24PM]

Stop bitching you bitches

[EGOvoruhk Posted Jul 4th 2009 7:56PM]

You act like that doesn't make sense. People didn't bitch to make Apple discontinue them, people bitched because they wanted it for the same price as the white Macbook

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 5th 2009 9:05PM]

..ohh, B1tch, b1tch, b1tch.

[waynema Posted Jul 4th 2009 5:09PM]

what goes around comes around

[dank414 Posted Jul 4th 2009 5:10PM]

i want to see a titanium version of this.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 4th 2009 5:15PM]

I'd buy it, but only if they replaced the green LED next to the iSight with a little black light that lights up black to let you know that you've done it.

[aashish bhagya Posted Jul 16th 2009 12:07PM]

WTF man? black LED on a black chassis? Are u Riddick or somethin?

[TheSmartOne Posted Jul 4th 2009 5:16PM]

Damn, I just hate how Apple took away the Black Macbook. Don't they realize Black is a Pro color too?

Or is it because there's no such thing as Black Aluminum?

[White Noise Posted Jul 4th 2009 7:11PM]

There is this nifty thing called anodizing though.

[Samurai Jack Posted Jul 4th 2009 8:42PM]

Bah, I'm holding out for transparent aluminum myself. I want to see all of the inner Mac-ky goodness. And then cover it with whale stickers.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 4th 2009 5:22PM]

Well to correct a few statements which obviously made no references... This is far from double the price. Apple charges about 4300 for this machine, and plenty of people pay that gladly. Colorware charges about 700 to completely repaint a 15 inch MBP and about 300 to refinish the screen to matte which is sadly no longer offered from Apple. So assuming the "SofTouch" coating cost a little extra, they are charging you less than 700 to have the bragging rights of being one of 10 people in the world with this. Oh and I really don't understand why anyone would complain about the SSD? Whats wrong with a faster, more durable drive. Personally I love the matte black, and if I had the money I'd buy one.

[joueboy Posted Jul 4th 2009 6:01PM]

Why are you okay with SSD for the price? That totally rip-off!

[kennethmoestrup Posted Jul 4th 2009 5:29PM]

I got to say, this is really cheap: If I were to buy this in Denmark with the same specs (minus the matte screen) the price is $5782.39.
So that's a little over $200 for the paint job and a matte screen.

[joueboy Posted Jul 4th 2009 5:57PM]

It's the ugliest most expensive MacBook I've ever seen. I don't want to bring this around and people would start to think that my Macbook is discontinued or knock-off MacBook Pro design. I want my MacBook just like the way Apple design it, because they are the best on it. Why other companies try to fix the perfect design of Apple and try to sell it for premium with their custom color. Colorware who? They want to put their name on my stuff and I still have to pay premium for that? Now Way! 256MB is the most terrible MacBook Pro in the market.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 4th 2009 8:25PM]

"people would start to think that my Macbook is discontinued or knock-off MacBook Pro design."

Only a complete tool would make a purchasing decision based on what "people would start to think"

[CTTHosting Posted Jul 4th 2009 5:59PM]

In the US the computer is $4300 from Apple with those specs. If you were to send in your current MacBook top ColorWare to have that paint job it's another $869. Thats a total of about $5200. But thats a shiny black with a Matte screen. If you want the matte MacBook like this then its another $800 which brigs the total price to $6000.

http://www.colorwarepc.com/p-180-macbook-pro-g2-15.aspx

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 4th 2009 6:07PM]

So thats a 3.05mhz Cpu, with 8kb of DDR3 and 256mb of hard drive space. What a waste of $6000. : )

[TheSmartOne Posted Jul 4th 2009 7:27PM]

I think you seriously read the article wrong. If you didn't, then you PHAIL or you must be joking.

It's a 3.06GHz cpu, 8GB of DDR3, and 256GB SSD. LOLz.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 4th 2009 6:13PM]

did it mean 256 gb ssd?

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 4th 2009 6:15PM]

ya i think thats what they ment
the official colorware site says 256 GB SSD

http://www.colorwarepc.com/p-183-stealth-macbook-pro.aspx

[pika2000 Posted Jul 4th 2009 6:19PM]

How do you install the OS? Into a RAM disk?

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 4th 2009 6:43PM]

Gorgeous. A work of art. Worth every penny.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 5th 2009 6:30AM]

..PSYCHE.
...wait...seriously?

And people wondered what happened to our economy.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 4th 2009 6:47PM]

I'm just laughing
$6000 LOL

[pablofamoso Posted Jul 4th 2009 7:04PM]

does this mean my BlackBook is a hot commodity now?

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 5th 2009 6:32AM]

Its always been a hot commodity.

No lap typing for JOO.

[2late2die Posted Jul 4th 2009 7:13PM]

You could buy macbook pro spec'd like that for 4249, send it to colorware for a regular black + matte finish job for 819, and save almost a thousand bucks on it. As far as I can tell only thing you'll be missing on is a black trackpad and the softouch finish. Oh and of course if you don't want the SSD you could save another $600. Seems like a much better deal to me overall.

[Patlex Posted Jul 4th 2009 7:18PM]

This also has a matte screen, which add another few hundred to the cost.