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In case mobiles covered in Swarovski crystal wasn't enough, ComputerChoppers are offering to plate your McBook Pro in 24 carat gold, for around £700.

As you can see from looking on their site, they do a really good job - completely taking apart the machine, painting and re-etching the keyboard, the works.

For an extra fee you can get the Apple logo encrusted with diamonds.

I want to see someone replace the aluminium with titanium so we don't have to put up with the constant dings and scratches. My TiBook was a great laptop :-(

As reported on Drobe, Professor Steve Furber, the brains behind the BBC Micro and ARM architecture, has been awarded the Faraday medal, the most prestigious achievement award from the Institute of Engineering and Technology.
Since 1922, the Faraday award has been handed out once a year for notable accomplishments in engineering.

The BBC Micro was the defining computer that kick-started computing in the UK, as part of a campaign by the BBC to raise computing literacy.

I'm not normally a huge fan of Microsoft's products - not by a long shot - but their entire foray into the world of consoles has been an interesting one. The original Xbox turned out to be a pretty decent system, with some great titles on it.

What really endears the Xbox to me, though, is it's hackability.

A whole range of modchips came out that really enchanced the abilities of what was an already impressive system. Having a hard drive and networking as standard was just too PC-like to be ignored, and the modding community rose to the challenge.