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Do you have more money than sense? Tulip’s E-Go laptop is inlaid with solid palladium white gold plates in which thousands of brilliant cut diamonds have been set. The quality is V.V.S. top-Wesselton and the total weight is 80.00 Crt. The downside is that it’ll cost you a cool £192,060 ($336,557).

The brilliant cut diamonds are microscopic and pave set with surgical precision. This magnificent end result is possible thanks to the use of brilliant cut diamonds with a large variety of diameters. A unique square cut ruby has been set in both Tulip logos.

For the Tulip E-Go diamond project, Marcel van Galen Design worked closely together with Design Department product engineering and Laurent de Beer Master Jewellery Designer. Tulip developed the E-Go lifestyle laptop to meet what it sees as a growing tendency towards design and personalisation. It’s an ‘easy going’ device that has the ability to reflect the individual personality and mood of the owner by changing the covers.

The E-Go utilises Inclosia’s patented mass-production EXO overmolding system technology which is designed to incorporate fabrics, leather and other materials into electronic devices and is most commonly seen in Microsoft’s executive mouse with its leather look.

‘Tulip has identified a growing tendency towards design needs within the computer industry. The ordinary computer has evolved from a specialty product to a commodity product. Competition in the computer market is driven by specifications and price, with a growing demand of users willing to pay a premium for a personalised design computer,’ said Huub van den Boogaard, Founder, Tulip.

The handbag-styled E-Go is pitched at ladies rather than mobile gamers or professional designer, but its core specifications are surprisingly good. The system is based on an AMD Turion 64 processor, ATI Radeon Xpress 200 graphics chipset, 1GB of PC3200 DDR RAM, 100GB SATA hard disk drive, and 12.1-inch widescreen WXGA (1280x800 pixels) display.

You also get a DVD-RW optical drive, touchpad pointing device, built-in Web camera, 802.11a/b/g Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 1.2, microphone, stereo speakers, ExpressCard, four USB 2.0 ports, 10/100Base-TX NIC, VGA and S-Video out ports, and SD/MMC/MS/MS Duo memory card reader. The Lithium-ion battery should last around 4 hours, according to the company.

More information on the product can be found here.

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