Customize Your Laptop to The Extreme

While every computer manufacturer and vendor allows its clients to customize their desired machine within certain limits, usually this process is reduced to selecting the preferred parts from a list. True customization can usually only be achieved when buying all the hardware parts separately and assemble the computer system from scratch but this approach is too complicated for most users. In order to meet the demands of users that desire a truly personalized machine, a startup company named NvousPC offers the possibility to exercise complete control over the appearance of the purchased notebooks.

Oscar Zapata, a former Alienware product development engineer, is one of the founders of this new company and it looks like he came with that special something that separated Alienware machine from the rest of the crowd since the first notebook was launched. NvousPC is aimed at covering the notebook market by offering a new concept, the "PC as fashion accessory". So, the all look alike notebooks are getting a face lift as the company allows its customers to configure online the external appearance of their systems by uploading images that will then be painted on the lid. For customers really wanting a one of a kind machine, an in-house designer to fine-tune the look is also available as is a rich color gamut which goes from sea-green or purple stripes to glow-in-the-dark paint jobs.

Apart from the external appearance, the hardware components are pretty customizable too as users may choose from two predefined configurations like the 14.1-inch Mercury and the 15.4-inch Ether notebooks that feature a minimum 1GB of RAM then go from there and pick their desired processor, hard disk drive, Bluetooth modules, optical drive and more. Price tags are not too hot, as the Mercury starts at $1,099, and the Ether at $999, while the base price is $186 for custom design and paint job, but then prices go really up if customers select the upgrade to an Intel Core 2 Duo T7600 processor and Windows Vista.

"We're going for a specific culture within the college market--the more upscale college students with expendable income, that Mom and Dad are putting them through class and looking for machines to distinguish themselves", said Oscar Zapata in an interview and he was cited by the news site news.com.