This is a modern HP laptop, taken apart and re-assembled with lots of wood, leather and brass to give it a Victorian look. No price is given, but ForbesLife mentioned $1500 for just a keyboard.
The technology part of this thing will be obsolete in three years. How will it fare as art? Consider a Compaq "portable", circa 1983. 28 pounds, shoulder strap, 9-inch green screen, 4.77 Mhz processor, 128KB Memory, 2 5-1/2-inch floppies, no hard drive. No doubt someone could have replaced all the plastic with leather and wood and made it look like a piece of Victorian luggage. Perhaps someone did. So here we are, 25 years later, and it's a ridiculously obsolete piece of technology dressed up as something a hundred years more obsolete. So what? That's what the steampunk laptop is going to look like 25 years from now.
(Steampunk, by analogy with cyberpunk, is a type of science fiction set in the Victorian era, the age of steam engines. The term has spilled over from literature to art.)
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