World’s Most Expensive Laptop? The Ego Bentley
July 22nd, 2008 by Joanna Stern 
Let’s take a break from ultra cheap mini-notebooks and even the world’s cheapest laptop (aka the RazorBook) and focus on a laptop that doesn’t only cost as much as a car, but is also car branded. Enter the Ego Bentley.
Ego Lifestyle is known for making ultra chic, luxury notebooks. In fact, when I spoke to America’s Next Top Model judge Nigel Barker a few months ago he deemed the Ego Signature laptop the most fashionable laptop.
So revving on to the car branded laptop scene is now the king of luxury cars: The Bentley. Priced at $19,943, the Ego Bentley is hand made and the exterior is clad in “the finest selection of Bentley leather” and is finished with authentic Bentley cross-over hand stitching. The leather exterior, which matches the deck under the hood, is available in a choice of 10 colors (see some of those in our gallery below).
A chrome handle is built in to the chassis is modeled after Bentley etching, known as Knurling. Oh I almost forgot to mention that the frames around the laptop are made of white gold.
And the specs? The Bentley sports a 64-bit version of Microsoft Vista Ultimate, a 160GB hard drive and is powered by 2GB of RAM and a Mobile AMD TurionTM 64 processor. Its 12-inch screen has a 1280×800 resolution and the system has a fine selection of ports, including 3 USBs, S-video out, a VGA port, microphone and headphones. Uh, 801.11 abg WLAN WiFi? You would think $20K would buy you draft-N, 4GB of RAM, and a terabyte of SSD storage, no?
There is a front loading DVD±RW player and a webcam centered over the display. And for the price you get Microsoft Office Small Business Edition 2007 and Dragon Naturally Speaking voice software, because you wouldn’t want to mar this fine laptop with your fingerprints. Would you?
The bad news: we cannot afford one of these. The good news: Ego has agreed to send us one for for review. What would you like to see us do to the Bentley to put it through its $20,000 paces?
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July 22nd, 2008 at 8:40 pm
Honestly – what sort of wealthy idiot would actually BUY one of these?
The specs are miserable. It’s a $600 bargain bin laptop inside. This doesn’t inspire envy, just laughs!
After Paris Hilton gets one for her poodle, who else is buying?!
July 22nd, 2008 at 9:14 pm
I just preordered one, the Bentley dealer told me about this at the dealership about a year ago, I can’t wait until it arrives! I’ll ask my butler to do an unboxing
July 23rd, 2008 at 2:57 pm
I think you should do all of the usual stuff then do some tests on like will it overheat if left in the sun or waterproof. I mean for $20,00, the actually laptop should BE something special, right? The only reason it’s so expensive is the Bentley modeled handbag exterior.
July 24th, 2008 at 7:20 am
What an extremely beautiful device. And finally a machine that is not overspec’d, but has the engine fit to the purpose. Saw the mothercompany also won the Fashion PC award.
Love it – unfortunately can’t buy one yet, but certainly can’t buy a Bentley, so this might be a replacement on my wish list!
July 26th, 2008 at 11:50 pm
Is Bentley “Bent” ? Is this a retro 1960’s handbag ? Can a Macho man carry this off ?
August 6th, 2008 at 8:28 am
It is really not male. I prefer a Notebook from Ggeveros Design. It is really exclusive and has a maximum of hardware.
August 10th, 2008 at 9:45 am
Wow. I don’t think i would pay the money to just be “fationable” an walk around with these. Plus, they don’t match anything i wear. I’ll stick with the regular laptops.
September 1st, 2008 at 8:13 am
its realty stupid idea to buy such expensive laptop, ‘ll buy some nice car & laptop in that amount
September 18th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
I wouldn’t pay this, but if I had the cash I’d get myself seriously kitted out with Alienware gear – a laptop, a desktop AND the big wide screen thing of theirs.
September 23rd, 2008 at 11:00 pm
Let’s not even speak about the price. It’s ugly!!
October 4th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
£20 000? Not for this one!
November 9th, 2008 at 2:51 pm
my servant got 2 of them!
November 13th, 2008 at 9:57 pm
omg this is a load of bs i can get a laptop for about $6k with about 6g ram and a 1.5tb of memory all this bently stuff is a load of bull waste of money and time gl with it and ill just watch your buisness fail
December 28th, 2008 at 4:52 pm
Crappist laptop ever. I WILL NOT PAY $20,000 FOR THIS CRAP. Whoever does is a moron. The specs suck, it looks like a purse or a handbag, and the who the machine is not worth $400. Whoever buy this got to be really stupid. You could just buy an ordinary laptop and put it in a handbag and it would look better than this.
January 5th, 2009 at 12:06 am
Wrong. Theres a 350000 dollar laptop which is made from diamonds and gold. its 80 carats all over.
January 27th, 2009 at 7:44 am
how much is this laptop
January 27th, 2009 at 11:27 am
if any one gave it to me as a gift i ‘will never ever rejected,
February 15th, 2009 at 4:23 pm
Wrong again there’s a laptop for 1 million, Luvaglio of London released the world’s most expensive laptop.
February 28th, 2009 at 4:49 am
This is worthless.$20000! no chance
March 26th, 2009 at 6:23 am
Quite Cheap, would’t you agree. I got one for my 16th Birthday darling, there not that extravagent if you ask me.
April 27th, 2009 at 9:39 pm
You guys are soooo jealous I just got one last week and I really love it! Just becasue you can’t afford the rich things in life doesn’t mean you have to knock it. Stop being haters and get a real job. Besides, I wouldn’t expect any of you to understand because you probably don’t know what it is like to be daddy’s rich girl.
PEACE OUT PPL!!!!
April 30th, 2009 at 4:11 pm
You liar. I bought you a cardboard box, which is bigger than your room. 1. get some friends 2. get a life 3. stop telling people about MY laptop.
It is a great machine.
I spent more on it than I did on my daughter! but I hate her. and so does everyone else.
May 30th, 2009 at 7:29 pm
You people who claim to have bought this are probably just a bunch of losers who can only feel important by annoncing you can afford a piece of crap laptop like this to complete cyber-strangers, and are most likely a 12 year old kid who thinks people who have butlers and “servants” actually waste their lives on this website.
That being said, if you are in fact a millionaire and have purchased this for lack of a better word laptop, then you are very dumb, and your rich friends spend all their free time laughing at you behind your back.
I’m not knocking this laptop because I “can’t afford the rich things in life”… if this laptop had, say, a 4TB hard drive, or maybe 4 Core 2 Duo processors, or heck, maybe a screen that shoots lasers at thiefs, i’d sell my third car for one. But this ugly thing? I don’t know whether the exterior is a badly designed purse or the scrap car interior from a nasty interstate pile-up.
Message to Bentley: Stick to the luxury cars we know and love… leave the laptops to Mac.
June 12th, 2009 at 1:11 am
$20,000 and it runs on Windows? Ha ha.
June 13th, 2009 at 7:50 am
OMG, seriously, who the hell would wanna spend their cash on this crap?
~Honestly speaking~ Ego notebooks does have some nice designs, but hey, I wouldn’t want to spend just over 20k for a piece of fashionable notebook, even if I am a rich. -.-
July 14th, 2009 at 2:12 pm
everything which bentley makes is overpriced watches cars laptops everything
July 17th, 2009 at 4:16 pm
Joke, right? This cant be real. 20k for this shit?
July 21st, 2009 at 12:14 am
omg. the specs’ miserable. if i walk around with that crap around MIT, my friends would totally make a fool out of me! 20k and it runs on windows! seriously. o,O
July 24th, 2009 at 3:34 am
its TOTALLY MISERABLE! I WOULDN’T BUY IT EVEN IF I HAD THE WHOLE OF THIS WORLD UNDER MY CONTROL! AND ANYWAYS, IF I HAD BOUGHT IT THEN I HAD HAVE TO KEEP IT IN A SAFE FOR SAFEKEEPING! AND IT’S TOTALLY UGLY, LOOKS LIKE A HANDBAG TO ME!
August 4th, 2009 at 9:47 pm
looks like a poo
August 26th, 2009 at 10:10 am
never underestimate the stupidity of the consumer..
January 4th, 2010 at 9:43 am
no way to this women’s handbag looking laptop! it looks like my big sister’s makeup bag—or whatever it called.hahah! peace…just saying my opinion about that “can’t-tell-wether-it’s-laptop-or-handbag” laptop.lol
January 10th, 2010 at 4:38 am
NO THANKS!
February 20th, 2010 at 1:07 pm
wow. my sister’s dell laptop has better specs than this piece of sh*t. an my macbook, dont even ask about the specs, its better than this. only and stupid a****** would buy this.
February 23rd, 2010 at 3:19 am
if i buy one after that i have to go and beg and i dont like it
UNDERSTOOOOOD
February 23rd, 2010 at 3:22 am
every one who buys this sheet he is crazy