Asus and Lamborghini Team Up on Cobranded Notebooks

In my latest Low End Mac column, I take a look at some cool PC hardware.

I’m an Apple hardware and Mac OS fan. For the past 19 years I’ve worked on nothing but Macs, and the only non-Macs I’ve had have been a few older castoffs that came my way and were quickly passed on. However, that doesn’t obviate my casting a covetous glance PC-ward from time to time in appreciation of some pretty cool hardware in the PC category – in particular exoticar cobranded notebook computers…..

…I’m a lifelong consummate car nut, and one of my admittedly somewhat quixotic fantasies is that that Apple would make an exoticar cobranded MacBook Pro. Two of the most illustrious exoticar nameplates are already contracted to PC makers – Asus with Lamborghini and Acer has a similar deal with Ferrari – but there are still Bugatti, Bentley,* and Porsche (all now part of the Volkswagen empire), McLaren (possible carbon-fiber engineering tie-in there if Apple pursues that avenue) , Lotus, Aston Martin, and Maserati, which – like Ferrari – belongs to Fiat. There are also possible Formula One motor racing tie-ins with teams like McLaren, Williams, or even recent and current overachiever Red Bull.

Low End Mac Editor/Publisher Dan Knight adds:

You may remember the limited edition $19,800 Bentley Ego laptop, a Windows notebook introduced in 2008 and still available (I guess it takes a long time to sell out a 250 unit production run at these prices), so it’s possible that Bentley is not an option for Apple. Other Ego laptops are also listed on the Ego Lifestyle website.

You can check it out at:
http://www.lowendmac.com/ed/moore/11cwm/lamborghini-laptops.html