The guys over at Computer Choppers are about to finish their first custom MacBook Pro encased in uber-shiny 24 karat gold (with a golden, engraved keyboard) and lets us know that they’ll make one for anyone willing to pay about $1200-$1500 (depending on MacBook size) and wait 2-4 weeks.
Continue reading for a shot of the golden keyboard.
Tired of your black/grey/aluminum laptop environment? The German site Pro-Idee sells this Mac and PC-friendly wooden laptop environment (stand with keyboard and 800dpi mouse, both wireless).
Pro-idee.de: Wooden Laptop Stand and Accessories (€89, about US $124)
(Via Red Ferret)
HP bought Voodoo PC to compete with Dell / Alienware and here’s the first product: Blackbird 002, a rig designed and built for serious gamers. Besides the serious-lookin’ aluminum exterior you get liquid cooling, internal and external LED-lights, open and overclocking-friendly BIOS and a bunch of different hardware options. Expect a price tag between 2,500 and 6,500 USD.
So, compared to Dell XPS 720 H2C, who’s the winner?
HP.com: Blackbird 002 Product Site
HP.com: Blackbird 002 Tech Specs
(Via Acquiremag)
I don’t know what else Jeremy Mehrle likes, but he seriously loves Macs. Really. This guy has converted his basement into a shiny and spotless Mac museum and he’s got over a 100 machines there (including a rare Apple Lisa and 20th anniversary Mac).
Got to love the wall of old iMacs running the Flurry screensaver.
ASUS just announced their new line of UMPC’s dubbed Eee. These machines are actually affordable, the cheapest one costs about $200 and the most expensive about $400. For those dollars you get a lightweight PC with a 7" wide-screen LCD display, Flash based storage (about 4 gigs), 512 MB RAM, WiFi and shock proof encasing.
Asus.com/eeepc (Flash presentation)
(Via OhGizmo)
This ad (or image, really) is put together by Apple and shows the new Apple iMac versus a Dell XPS 410, and before you call foul play I’ll just remind you that the iMac ships with nifty stuff like wireless networking, an iSight web cam and remote control support built-in.
Cables are, as well all know, the root of all evil. So which system would you prefer on your desk, really?
Apple.com: iMac vs Dell XPS 410
Apple.com: iMac product page
(Via Fosfor Gadgets)
Here’s the updated Apple iMac (sporting the new Aluminum Keyboard of course). It’s thinner than before, encased in anodized aluminum and all iMacs comes with glossy screens.
The 17" model is gone now and they offer three different models – two with 20" and one with 24".
Here’s the first ad for the updated iMac:
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Yeah. Pretty boring, but you gotta admit that the machines look good.
Apple.com/imac (From $1199)
The new addition to the Sony Vaio series of laptops is called CR and this time it looks like Sony is flirting a bit with the ladies as well. The Vaio CR’s all sport Intel Core 2 Duo processors (1.8GHz) and built-in web cam, runs Windows Vista and are available in a variety of slick colors, from glossy white and matte black to indigo (glossy deep blue), cosmopolitan (glossy pink) and sangria (glossy deep red).
Sony.com: Vaio CR Laptops (From $1,369.99)
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The Zonbu is something of a new take on home computing. The actual device is small, silent, Linux-based (KDE) and eco-friendly and instead of a regular hard drive it features 4 GB of Flash based storage.
The grand thought behind the Zonbu is to sign up for a subscription ranging from Zonbu lite ($12.95/month) to Zonbu premium ($19.95/month) for on-line storage space at their ‘disaster-proof’ servers ranging from 25 to 100 GB as well as automatic backups, application and OS maintenance, free upgrades, free device replacement and unlimited online support.
My take: Personally I’d love to see more mini computers running Linux on the market (both the GNOME and KDE desktop environments are quite mature nowadays) but please, give me local storage.
(Via Redferret)
Here’s Dell XPS 720 H2C Edition, a machine built for serious gaming with a glossy piano black aluminum case packing a factory-overclocked Intel Core 2 Extreme quad-core processor (from 2.66GHz to 3.46GHz), 2GB of Corsair Dominator RAM (overclocked to 1066Mhz), SLI-enabled dual 768MB nVidia GeForce 8800 GTX graphics, Blu-ray drive, two 160GB SATA-drives, Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic sound and a 1KW power supply – all kept cool by a H2C thermo-electric/liquid cooling system.
The machine features LightFX as well, meaning there’s three different LED light zones with 16 different colors and shades, allowing the machine to create light effects for fire, thunder, heartbeats, hit detection and such.
Dell.com: XPS 720 H2C (from $5,999)
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