Monday - October 06, 2008

FROM THE WORLD OF TECHNOLOGY …. A $20,000.00 LAPTOP COMPUTER … WHOO HOO

Looks like a handbag to me.  I guess it’s for the girl, or the guy who thinks he’s a girl, who already has everything.
For 20G though, I’d want it to fly and have a kitchen and bath. So forget the flight. At least a kitchen. 

Bentley create £10,000 luxury laptop

Last Updated: 12:01am BST 22/09/2008

In these straitened times, it’s hardly the kind of gift that is going to feature on many people’s Christmas lists. But Bentley, the luxury car manufacturer, is hoping to entice the world’s super rich with the release of a new £10,000 laptop computer.

Bentley lap top by ego
The Bentley laptop is hand-built

Hand-built with white-gold frames and the Bentley logo, the exclusive computer comes in a leather case cross-stitched like the cars’ seats.

The exterior is in Bentley leather and the laptop’s handle is modelled on the company’s trademark door handles.

Only 250 of the computers will go on sale worldwide from this autumn. However, if the blogosphere is anything to go by, there are unlikely to be many takers.

One unimpressed blogger said: “I’m sorry, but that really is one of the ugliest laptop form factors I’ve ever seen. But, then again, if you can afford a Bentley, you might as well throw heaps of cash on this thing, as well.

“You’ll be the butt of plenty of cruel sniggers, but what the hey…you’ll be chic. And that’s all that really counts, isn’t it?”

Another disgrunted blogger wrote: “This is a pointless product. Anyone who buys this laptop has too much money for his/her own good.”

(Now that last remark is dead wrong. One can NEVER have too much money.  Money does not buy poverty. The more, the better. And the more toys you can buy. )

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