The shiniest computer ever
Not to be outdone by the golden Apple laptop featured on Mousetrap a little while back, Japanese computer manufacturers Zeus have announced a new range of PCs that redefine the term ‘conspicuous consumption’.
The Jupiter casing is cast from solid platinum encrusted with a dazzling array of diamonds (no low-budget Swarovski crystals here) arranged to resemble astrological constellations. If you were to ask your valet to open the case you’d find a 3GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with a 256MB GeForce 7200GS graphics card, a 1 terabyte SATA drive, 2GB of RAM, and a choice of Blu-ray or HD-DVD optical drives. Vista Ultimate is installed at the factory.
The entire package will set you back around ¥80million, or a shade over £375,000. If you’re on a budget Zeus also offer the ‘Mars’ casing, which wraps up the same PC works in gold instead of platinum. That’s only ¥60m (£280,000).
Of course if you have that sort of money burning a hole in your pocket you could always buy 100 Area-51 ALX CrossFire desktops and network them together for the finest LAN party setup the world has ever seen. They aren’t quite as shiny though.
Sounded great until they said Vista. But if I spent that much I can buy XP and download Ubuntu for it.
Posted by: James | Jan 30, 2008 7:25:27 AM
A Dual core intel and a 256MB GeForce 7200GS?? Surely if you're spending this much on a pc you could at least put some decent hardware in the bling!
Posted by: Matt | Jan 30, 2008 10:02:19 AM
For that amount of money I'd expect it to come with someone to actually do my work for me.
Posted by: Bazza | Jan 30, 2008 10:03:27 AM
...why?
Posted by: Phill | Jan 30, 2008 4:05:53 PM
As Matt said...for that price, they could at least fit it out with better hardware.
Posted by: Adz | Feb 17, 2008 5:20:02 PM
ha ha if u buy a 400 dollar laptop 2day, it will still b stronger then this shiny one
Posted by: your mother (do your hw!) | Jun 15, 2008 2:10:19 AM