The Ego Lifestyle is a luxury laptop designed to simulate the look of a hand bag when closed. It certainly looks swank: the handmade leather skins are easily swapped from alligator to leopard print according to your ensemble, for example. And even the specs are pretty nice: there’s a real machine here. The price, however, is jaw dropping: over $4,000 for the basic model. But let’s face it… when the official website constantly bombards you with glamor shots of millionaire fashionistas carrying their purse-like luxury laptops while Indian bellhops struggle behind them to lug 200 pounds of luggage up to the penthouse suite, you know they’re marketing exclusively to twats.
Ego Lifestyle Notebooks [Official Site]
Do people really want to buy a product called Ego? Isn’t that like buying a sports car called Small Penis?
4000 is cheap considering there are handbags that cost as much without any computing power.
however, if their target market exist -> rich + cares about fashion + carries a laptop
Can I say that I find the use of “twats” mildly upsetting, when “twits” would have suited just as well, without the sexual baggage associated with “twat”?
(“Bruce Arthurs: Pedant or Prude? Cast Your Votes Now!“)
agreed, Pedant.
Hey, finally there is a market for the old “toilet seat”/”handbag” Apple G3 iBooks. The resemblance is remarkable!
I’ll just take a few out of the heap of electronics in my garage, spiff ‘em up with a few crystals and leather, and charge $2000. How’s that for undercutting!
I’m sure the buyers won’t notice the complete lack of any modern useful hardware…they aren’t using it so much as a laptop as a fashion accessory.
agreed, Bruce. we don’t need more misogyny, thanks.
I dunno, John Cooper Clarke gives a good definition of the word Twat.
It’s funny, the Brits treat twat like a regular swear word, but in the US it’s a much bigger deal, worse than “fuck,” here, I think.
It’s funny, the Brits treat twat like a regular swear word, but in the US it’s a much bigger deal, worse than “fuck,” here, I think.
Used to be worse than fuck, but I think (from personal experience which we all know is about as reliable as the Titanic) I think it’s losing its strength in common parlance. I called someone a twat-toupee once within hearing of an administrator and received only a verbal warning. Fuck gets you a suspension, though.
Nothing wrong with the word “twat”,fine anglo-saxon term that it is .People need to be a bit less cuntish about language….