Not to be outdone by our friends in Mexican drug cartels and their gun bling, [Ed. - No we have no affiliate with them, promise!] we've got some bling coming from Putin's Peeps - Russia! Since they opted to bring The Wall down, they decided to focus on even more important things. - like computers that cost more than your house.
Singulum makes some insanely blinged out hand-made $1,000,000 (or 30,682,452 RUB for our friends in South Ossetia) laptops with ivory keys. No Chinese sweatshop laborers were even used in its construction, which could possibly account for at least half the cost.
More info after the break, since I know you've got some Rubles burning a hole in your pocket.
So, the motherboards and other functional components aren't made of fairy dust and unicorn horns (I don't think), but these are just off the shelf name-brand laptops with custom shells. So, Alienware has nothing to worry about.
The base-model Singulum model would run somewhere in the neighborhood of $22,900, but sans the ivory.
The motherboards aren't made of fairy dust and unicorn horns. They're actually just rebranded/custom rebuilt laptops.
Everyone can rest easy about the ivory situation. The founder says, "The ivory we use is a preconvention ivory and customers like this version get a certificate from the goverment. The basic SINGULUM version (wood, standard keyboard and no gold finishing) will be around 18,000.00 Euro. The tag ivory version with gold application will be 40,000,00 Euro, without tax"
Whew, I'm glad that's cleared up.
Who here in a show of hands feels relieved about receiving a certificate from the Russian government while it's "main" dude Dmitry Medvedev Putin is out getting his jollies shooting gray whales with a crossbow?
Paul Watson of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society's head must have exploded because there is nary a mention of this incident on their site http://www.seashepherd.org.
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