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[smurkin]

Maybe old, but I was quite impressed with the Savrow Digital Aristocracy Diamond Range of bespoke pcs.

Note the Black Leather Lambskin Trim .... decadent


They also do a shuttle-like Baby Platinum series with car paint job.

Pity the specifications aren't a little more detailled

There is also a gallery section where they claim their rigs are doom3-future proof

 

[mank!]

I do not want to know how much that costs.

 

[Jonty]

What can I say? Wow! hehe. I haven't come across those before, but they're certainly very impressive.

Personally (for when I win the lottery ) I have a ~£10,000 Alienware system I'd like to buy. That said, a little while ago I came across a feature in PCFormat which looked at a bespoke £24,000 system. The latter really was something, in fact I believe the makers even produced their own components in parts just to enable them to create such an incredibly high specification PC. Sadly I don't have the details to hand, but at £24,000 you can guess the specs yourself

Oh well, we can but dream

Kind Regards

 

[smurkin]

Identix USB 200, Fingerprint Scanning Biometric device for Logon

obscene ! (I dont know what that is...but it sounds cool)

 

[old.RedVenom]

Biometrics is wildly overrated. Its just not good enough at the moment...

 

[Jonty]

lol! That really is cool I'm quite interested in these biometric products, as they're not too outrageously priced any more. I first got hooked thanks to my webcam which came with Keyware's biometric face and voice identification utility, whereby you could logon to Windows after boot or on waking from a screensaver and use the camera and the microphone to identify yourself. It isn't perfect, and could be fooled, but it is rather cool hehe.

Kind Regards

 

[Sibanac]

Originally posted by Jonty
lol! That really is cool I'm quite interested in these biometric products, as they're not too outrageously priced any more. I first got hooked thanks to my webcam which came with Keyware's biometric face and voice identification utility, whereby you could logon to Windows after boot or on waking from a screensaver and use the camera and the microphone to identify yourself. It isn't perfect, but it is rather cool hehe.

Kind Regards

a guy at work has a fingerprint scanner build into the mouse, it looks like a small solar pannel slightly sunk into the top of the mouse.
He just presses it with a fingure and it logs him in. He also uses difrent fingers for diffrent usernames/domains

 

[Jonty]

Originally posted by Sibanac
a guy at work has a fingerprint scanner build into the mouse, it looks like a small solar pannel slightly sunk into the top of the mouse.
He just presses it with a fingure and it logs him in. He also uses difrent fingers for diffrent usernames/domains

hehe, that sounds cool. I believe the fingerprint biometric kit may be more secure than the voice and face equivalents, since a fingerprint is rather hard to replicate in these circumstances. What you describe sounds very similar to what I was thinking of, only the products I have seen reviewed weren't integrated into the mouse (which is good, since you can still have a nice mouse, but not so good as it was more clutter, even though it's quite small). I guess all this appeals to the James Bond in me hehe.

Kind Regards

 

[PR.]

I have BioMetrics built into my iPAQ, it works very well. It may seem OTT but its faster than a long secure password and is much more secure.

 

[old.RedVenom]

Originally posted by PR.
...and is much more secure.

Highly debateable.

Please delete my post as I have no way of justifying this, and not much more to say on the subject.

 

[nath]

lol.

MUMMY HE DELETED MY POST (((

 

[Testin da Cable]

we use biometrics + OTP keycodes at work for entering certain places. other than that it's answering the good old passphrase challenge

 

[Clowneh!]

link to 10k computer please

 

[Embattle]

Hmm computers for snobs

http://www.laptop-shop.co.uk/new-laptops-notebooks/SAMSUNG-P25CXVZ-laptop-notebook-new.htm

Uses fingerprints at BIOS level for security.

 

[Jonty]

Originally posted by Clowneh!
link to 10k computer please

Hi Clowneh!

Sadly I can't link directly to my chosen system, but here are the specifications . . .

Alienware.co.uk

Intel Pentium® 4 Processor 3.0 GHz 800MHz FSB w/ 512KB Cache w/H.T. (3.2Ghz soon, I suppose)
Intel D875PBZ - Intel 875P Pentium 4 Motherboard
2GB DDR SDRAM PC-3200
2x 200GB Western Digital Ultra ATA 7200rpm w/8MB Cache
NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 Ultra 256MB 8x AGP w/DVI & S-Video
Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Platinum 6.1
16/48x IDE DVD-ROM Drive
Pioneer DVR-A05 4x DVD-RW
1.44 MB Floppy Drive - Black [+5]
Alienware 6 in 1 USB 2.0 Internal Card Reader
Intel PRO/1000 MT Gigabit Desktop Adapter
US Robotics 56K Voice Modem PCI
Microsoft Windows® XP Professional
2x NEC 30" MultiSync® LCD 3000-BK
Logitech Z-680 5.1 THX Speakers
Logitech Internet Keyboard UK (Cyborg Green)
Microsoft IntelliMouse Explorer USB 3.0 (Cyborg Green)
MS Sidewinder Force Feedback Wheel w/Pedals USB
MS Sidewinder Precision 2 USB
Sennheiser HD580 Open-Aire Digitally Compatible Headphones
Creative® MuVo™ 128MB
Alienware Full-Tower Case (420-Watt PS) (Cyborg Green)
AlienIce Video Cooling System for Alienware case (Terra Green)
Alienware Cable Management System
AlienAdrenaline: Video Performance Optimizer
Microsoft Office XP Professional (2003 soon, I suppose)
Free Alienware® T-Shirt (White)
3-Year AlienCare Toll-Free 24/7 Phone Support
AlienAutopsy: Automated Technical Support Request System

In reality, it's those two gorgeous 30" monitors that double the price, as they are £2570 each (makes our Sony ones look positively cheap, right TdC? ). Overall the system comes in at time-to-remortgage-my-house £10,008.67.

Kind Regards

Edit ~ Yes, before you say it, it can probably be built cheaper by doing it yourself; no it doesn't use the best of the best components in all cases, but still, it's something special

 

[mank!]

Originally posted by Jonty
I believe the fingerprint biometric kit may be more secure than the voice and face equivalents, since a fingerprint is rather hard to replicate in these circumstances

Nah it's not, all you've got to do is chop off a hand...

 

[Jonty]

Originally posted by mank!
Nah it's not, all you've got to do is chop off a hand...

Oh, that's all? hehe. You've actually made me think of Demolition Man, where Wesley Snipes skewers the prison warden's eyeball with a pen and uses it to bypass the retinal scanner. Eww, I think I need to go and lie down

Kind Regards

 

[Testin da Cable]

Originally posted by Jonty

In reality, it's those two gorgeous 30" monitors that double the price, as they are £2570 each (makes our Sony ones look positively cheap, right TdC? ).

I like them. Yes please

 

[smurkin]

Intel Pentium® 4 Processor 3.0 GHz 800MHz FSB w/ 512KB Cache w/H.T. (3.2Ghz soon, I suppose)

If your interested, theres a nice review over at Anandtech ....the upper Intels totally spank the Amds in benchmarks...

Like the Alienware free t-shirt btw...nice touch.

 

[Jonty]

Originally posted by smurkin
Like the Alienware free t-shirt btw...nice touch.

hehe, yeah, you're only spending ten thousand pounds with them, enough to build one hundred permenant shelters for the neediest people in Africa. I do like Alienware, though. Things like the personalised manual, with pages of statistics and graphs detailing your system's exact benchmark performance. And the fact they'll sell you components at trade prices after you purchase your system, so you simply pay exactly what Alienware pay, without any markup. It's just little things like that which make all the difference.

As for those P4C 3.2Ghz chips, I wouldn't say no to one!

Kind Regards

 

[PR.]

Originally posted by mank!
Nah it's not, all you've got to do is chop off a hand...

Thats not necessarily gonna work. My iPAQ works on the basis of the thermal variations between the ridges on your finger. Once the hand is dead that temperature variation will change possibly failing the scan. And don't say I would put it in a warm bag because that would cause the ridges temperatures to be inverted. Hot on the outside cold in the ridges

* Note I've not had possession of a dead hand to try this so I may be wrong...