While you’d all know that celebrities, despite their wealth, get expensive shit for free all the time, today we’re going to take a look at a particular gift. Partly because it is a computer for games, but also because we also have the receipt.
Jake Lucky, the sports man, tweeted this early today, and it certainly provoked a backlash:
The responses to the responses generally ranged from “it looks like shit” to “this is too high a price” to “all this just to play with” (soon more on that). This first feeling may be a little too much. I find this great! It’s a gaming computer, what do you expect, and the white lighting in these photos looks infinitely more elegant than the aesthetics of the electronic clown car you often see on these types of systems. I especially like the lighting around the fans, it’s a very “star aisle aisle” look.
As for the price, well, here are some warnings. The computer, which was created by Paradox Customs, was actually purchased for Drake as a gift by the Xposed streamer (Paradox tells Kotaku that they “pulled out” the component selection together) and in the time between the first command and computer. The arrival on the market of many expensive PC parts crashed for some reason. Add some Canadian taxes Xposed had to pay and Paradox says the actual cost in July 2022 is closer to $ 6,500. Which, you know, is still ridiculously expensive for a computer, but it’s not $ 8,000 either.
How do we know? Paradox tweeted this today, which also gives us a chance to take a look at the kind of specs you can expect to see on a computer that costs more than my last three desktop computers put together.
As to who paid for the system and why, Xposed chose that exact system for himself, then says he asked for a second for Drake because he had helped the rapper with a previous computer, but at the time he had to skimp and get it. a “prebuilt from Best Buy because it was short-lived”:
In December 2021, Xposed signed a collaboration agreement with Stake, an online betting site that Drake only continuously broadcasts and promotes at the same time, and who shared this arrival of new computers on their social networks.