Gold, diamond-leafed Gaiser PCs might just bring Marie Antoinette back from the grave
By Laura June 
posted Aug 7th 2009 1:06PM
posted Aug 7th 2009 1:06PM
Don't get us wrong -- we're all in favor of purposeless, ostentatious, and classless displays of wealth -- but we prefer it to be a little less... tacky? German manufacturer High End PCs have the high end part down pat -- they'll dip your desktop in all manners of gold (up to 24 karat!), cubic zirconia and of course, diamonds. Now, we don't have any specs on these puppies -- though we suspect performance is beside the point. Our only real qualm with the product is that it looks like a Kleenex box from Don Johnson's bathroom in 1986. But, if you have a stack of money hanging around and you just can't be bothered to think of really awesome things to do with it, Gaiser's PCs start from about $8,000 and run up to around $33,000.
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It looks like a computer programmer drank a ton of goldschlager and took a giant shit and this is the end result.
I don't know, I think they look cool. At least a hell of a lot better than that Swarovski garbage.
Yeah - minus the gold, of course. Take brushed gunmetal or so instead, and they'd look stunning.
Yeah, I somehow like the one on top too... though I'd rather get brushed aluminium. But other than that, nice.
It probably can't do simple word apps
useless useless
gotta get me some of that diamond leaf? qua?
"looks like a Kleenex box from Don Johnson's bathroom in 1986."
Good one Laura. ; )
Looks like a Nexus Psile case (which is a very flattering HTPC design) but done horribly, horribly wrong. Sad.
bye bye MacBook Pro! Hello GoldBook!!!!!!
Snort. If I wanted gold on my computer, I'd take an ordinary computer and apply gold leaf. Won't look *quite* as good, but it won't cost $8,000, either.
Finally, a PC for Puff Daddy, or P Diddy, or Pink Dildo, or whatever he's called this month.
Is there an option to lower and tint it too? Just need to flop on a campbells soupcan exhaust and F40 wing, and you'll be the boss.
...For 8 months until the junk is dated.
It arrives at your door, you unpackage it, then you notice on the bottom it says "made in china". Then you realize you have been ripped off and rush to the manufacturer website only to realize that all the product pics are CGI images. Sort of like those $1M CGI speakers.
Gold is so 1980s. Those are lame and people who buy them are lame.
but it matches my christian audigier.
Recession antidote?
On the plus side, it goes well with my million dollar speakers:
http://www.engadgethd.com/2009/08/06/transmission-audio-ultimate-speakers-1m-for-the-best-monopho/
If marie antoinette came back she'd still need stitches before anything else.
The case is just the Psile from Dutch company Nexus, with an expensive sticker, the Psile has been around for years (really nice case though):
www.psile.com
www.nexustek.nl
and just because I like replying to myself: when I say "really nice case," I mean the original Psile case, not this tacky rubbish :P