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11 Pimped-Out PCs

From the cutting edge in eight-core PC gaming muscle to the retro styling of the Victorian era, these desktops and laptops reach for the heights of extravagant design.

Laptop Time Travel

Rumor has it Queen Elizabeth II is an iPod fan, and we're sure Queen Victoria would have been similarly gobsmacked by Datamancer's Steampunk Victorian Laptop (custom jobs only, priced accordingly). Richard Nagy, aka Datamancer, turned an HP ZT1000 laptop into a music-box-like device with clockwork gears on top, a brass- and leather-embellished wooden case, and an antiqued-copper keyboard and mouse. It has violin f-holes for the speakers, and turning it on requires a clock-winding key. How's that for Victorian-style bling?

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