Diamond-Covered Notebooks Spotted In the Wild

Japanese PC designer Zeus surely knows how important the computers are to their owners, but this might seem a little too much. If Apple's MacBook Air looked expensive, Zeus' notebooks have not only the looks, but also the price tag itself screaming this.

Zeus' two models of notebooks, called Jupiter and Mars, come to redefine the term of 'conspicuous consumption'. Jupiter comes in a casing that is cast from solid platinum adorned with plenty of real diamonds, since Swarowski's crystals would seem a little... cheap. The other model is called Mars and is not cheaper: the notebook is molded in a solid gold casing. The zodiac-themed laptops come with their diamonds embedded in order to reflect a constellation and the Milky Way.

The glamor continues under the hood. If you care enough about the technology, you will be impressed by a 3GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 2GB of memory, 1TB of hard-disk drive storage, a 256MB GeForce 7200GS graphics card, and Blu-ray DVD drive.

Don't dream about them too much, as the impressive notebooks come with an equally impressive price tag. The Jupiter can be yours for as much as $375,000 (darn, that's really much). If you are less picky and gold suits you better than platinum, Zeus recommends the Mars model, that can be yours for a little less: "only" $280,000. It seems that the zodiac theme continues with the astronomic prices.

I also wonder who the metal consultant was, since almighty Zeus screwed things up a little. In my humble opinion, Mars was attributed to Iron rather than gold, since gold was already reclaimed by the mighty Sun. let's hope Zeus is better of a tech than of a mythologist, or otherwise we can claim our warranty in advance.

Oh, I almost forgot, both laptops are shipped with Windows Vista ultimate pre-installed on the manufacturing line, so now you get it why the laptops are so expensive.