Pffft getting wood for a script kiddie's ultimate dream I think not. However I definitely would if Angelina Jolie came with it. Zero cool can screw off.

Is it worth it? Well probably not for me, but for him I bet it was. Sorry Engadget we all can't be Johnathan Ive. In all seriousness, there isn't a netbook tablet out there and this guy saw that and spent some time and created his own. That's what hacking is all about, regardless of whether the outcome was pretty or not. Geez you guys should know that, or if you don't read some of hackaday.com for a while.

So we'll see you at Macworld then?

This statement is exactly why Apple is withdrawing from Macworld among the reasons. Don't get me wrong hype is has it time and place but honestly constant rumors that turn into nothing, there has to be more relevant gadget and technology news out there.

Those sound as bad as the locations here in Maine, which I noticed none were mentioned on this list. All of them except the Portland,Me one are crap holes. I've never had worse customer service and it seems to be the same deal at each location I have visited. I thought the first time around it was just the one store, but I was proved wrong. I know stores have to try and sell things, but when it gets to the point of harassing your customers, thats too much. I hope the ones here close and then shortly followed is the Best Buy stores.

Agreed. First thing I thought was way to steal the lines from a BMW Z8 and an Aston Martin Vanquish/Vantage. Not an original line on this car, there must be about 5-6 cars mixed into this one as far as shape goes. Not the ugliest of cars but at the same rate not one of the greatest looking either. I'm looking forward to seeing what the Top Gear guys have to say about this one.

This is bad news. However it makes sense considering the current situation of the country and our interests. I doubt the mass public cares about NEO's or ET's when gas is $4.00 a gallon and the other expenses there are today. Hey but at any rate, if this is shutdown the least they could do is siphon a couple million away and finally do a sequel/remake/whatever to Goldeneye and no not a shitty EA version either. But thats just me thinking the way our politicians do.

Hey its the old EDU Bot but on steriods. In seriousness though that looks a little familiar. I think I saw this design a couple times at some FIRST events. If Kamen and folk can have a brilliant idea and price it so us without an engineering job can pay for it, it might sell.

I too have gold spray paint. My sister probably has one of those bedazzler things. Put both of them together and I might have something more creative than this and oh yea for $74,998 cheaper. All jokes aside though, this is a huge waste of money. I think the company should provide security detail for you, where ever you go and use this laptop, otherwise its likely going to get stolen in a heartbeat. Oh wait thats right I forgot, the people buying this will have that anyways. I would rather spend a bunch of money on the body case for my Powerbook, that I'm going to be making out of carbon fiber and kevlar reinforcements, than on this thing. It'll be lighter, less likely to get stolen, very resistent to damage, and will actually look nicer than this gold monster and with the added benefit of not blinding me, with glare, if I decide to use it outside.

I agree totally. However, check out Falcon Northwest computers and do what I did earlier to see, max out their highest end desktop with every option and you come close to 15k. I wouldn't spend 5800 on a desktop let alone that. Its a total waste of money. I'd rather spend it on something that actually is worth it, nice car or college payment anyone?

In reply to Clark H. "The Apple Vending Machine shouldn't be too far off now..." I was in Atlanta, Georgia last year at the World Congress Center, and there was a vending machine that had iPod nano's, Video iPods, PSP's, and even a couple what looked to be G4 Powerbooks. Being where I'm from this surprised me I had never seen anything like that before.