Laptops For the Fashion Conscious

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Ever get apathetic with the appearance of your laptop? Ever think, "Gee, I ambition that this accepted sized, slate blah rectangle could be a little funkier, a little sassier, and conceivably alike a little sexier?" If you have, again Ego Lifestyle is the aggregation for you. The designers at Ego were annoyed of the aforementioned laptop appearance that has been about for the aftermost 20-odd years. "Look at the cars we had 20 years ago compared with the cars we accept today," says Jeroen de Punder, managing administrator of Ego Lifestyle. "They attending absolutely different, but notebooks are all specs and techs." He adds that because notebooks assignment fine, no one questions the way they look. The amount may assume a atomic one to abounding laptop users, but for the aesthetically inclined, Ego's different laptop designs are like a allowance from heaven.

Ego's aboriginal attack into fashionable laptops resulted in a annular cardinal that was appreciably agnate to Apple's clamshell iBook. It had ample angled edges and a backpack handle congenital about the hinge. Ego had to architecture its own ambit boards to fit into the annular design, and Added four speakers and a subwoofer abaft the screen. To complete the package, the apparatus came with changeable skins, so that the exoteric could be afflicted at will.

Since then, Ego, in affiliation with Tulip, has brought out a Love Edition laptop, advised accurately with Valentine's Day in mind. The abnormally annular case is anemic red (other colours are available) and boasts a stitched red affection in the middle, it additionally has a admirable red award on the handle, complete with a affection shaped pendent. But the fun doesn't stop there. They accept appear a 6-figure ($355,000, £179,583 or R2.6 million) diamond-encrusted model, as able-bodied as a Bentley archetypal that was aggressive by the allegorical British car. Ego launched its Bentley laptop at the British Motor Show in July this year, it appearance accurate Bentley cross-over hand-stitching in the aforementioned colour schemes as the cars. The backpack handle alike resembles the car's aperture handle.

The Bentley archetypal is decidedly cheaper than the diamond-encrusted one, but at £10,000 ($19,768 or R144,345), it's still priced above the ability of boilerplate Joe. But Ego Lifestyle isn't about the boilerplate Joe; it's about actuality aristocratic and ostentatious. De Punder says that their ambition bazaar are the "technofashionistas" of the world, those who are absorbed in fashion, architecture and technology, and who apparently accept added money than they apperceive what to do with. Their antecedent architecture amount about $3,975 (£2,010 or R29,025), while in 2006, its "entry akin model" came in at $5,000 (£2.529 or R36,509).

Recommended sites:
http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/09/tulips-love-edition-ego-gets-ready-for-valentines-day/
http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/15/tulips-luxury-ego-laptop-sashays-its-way-to-the-usa/