Building upon five generations of design enhancements, Gateway, Inc. today launched the Gateway Profile 5.5, the newest version of the company’s all-in-one desktop line.
With this newest upgrade to the space-saving series, the Gateway Profile 5.5 packs more processing punch per square inch, featuring Intel’s next-generation 915G chipset, integrated Intel graphics with up to 128MB shared memory and higher-bandwidth serial ATA (SATA) hard drives. The fully field-serviceable desktop also continues to offer 15-inch, 17-inch or 19-inch screen sizes.
Targeted at businesses, government agencies and educational institutions, the Gateway Profile 5.5 has a starting price point of under $1,400. Standard configurations include a 17-inch screen and Pentium 4 processor, but multiple options are available.
“Customers now have the best of both worlds with the new Gateway Profile 5.5,” said Marc Demars, Gateway’s director of business desktops in the press release. “Not only does the new PC maintain its space-saving form-factor, but it now also offers Intel’s newest 915G chipset, higher-capacity SATA hard drives and greatly enhanced graphics capabilities.”
As with the Profile 5, the 5.5 version offers easy-to-use floppy and optical drives accessible from the front of the computer, as well as two IEEE 1394 and six USB 2.0 ports on the side and back. While the Intel 915G chipset (featuring an Intel Pentium 4 520 processor with HT technology (2.8GHz, 800 MHz front-side bus, 1 MB cache) is standard, the PC is also available with Intel Celeron D processor options.
The Profile 5.5 also supports up to 2GB of DDR RAM and hard drives ranging in capacity from 40GB to 250GB. The PC features built-in gigabit Ethernet, optional 802.11g wireless and Gateway Client Manager software based on LANDesk technology, which allows IT managers to easily monitor and manage PCs across their network. The Profile 5.5 is available with either Microsoft Windows XP Pro or Microsoft Windows XP Home and comes standard with a standard, three-year limited warranty.
PC Magazine has a slideshow of photos taken from various angles here (make sure you haven’t eaten recently).
MacDailyNews Take: Yuck. If this doesn’t highlight the vast gulf between Apple’s and the Wintel box assemblers’ design abilities, nothing ever will.
Related MacDailyNews articles:
Beleaguered Gateway to ditch consumer electronics to focus on PC box assembly – September 13, 2004
Beleaguered Gateway cuts another 1,500 jobs; has cut 22,600 jobs in last four years – April 30, 2004
Beleaguered Gateway grinds up customer and spits him out unsatisfied – April 02, 2004
Beleaguered Gateway closes all retail stores; Apple poised to open 77th outlet – April 01, 2004
Beleaguered Gateway to axe over 2,000 jobs in next few months – March 03, 2004
Beleaguered Gateway to buy eMachines; combo could be 3rd largest Wintel box assembler – January 31, 2004
Beleaguered Gateway cuts more jobs; closes Virginia manufacturing plant – September 03, 2003
Beleaguered Gateway puts on a happy face – December 16, 2002
Beleaguered Gateway ditches cow on its way to slaughterhouse – October 31, 2002
Beleaguered Gateway desperately circling the drain – September 25, 2002
*sound of crickets*
ummm…MS. FREAKING ENDERLE??? Time to take your pill and go to beddy bye. Be a good girl now…YOUR FREAKING BLIND, INSANE, LOVER OF BUTT-UGLY MACHINES!!!
Seems to me Gateway must have got hold of a new iMac, dropped it down the ‘ugly staircase’, bouncing it off every step on the way down, then picked up what was left off of the floor and decided to sell it….
Q:What do you get if you put a Delorean in a trash compactor?
A: Call 888-888-2075
TMAN:
How dare you compare Gateway engineers with crack-smoking monkeys?
The Simian Society of America vociferously opposes this vile and heartless comparison. There is absolutely no confirmation that monkeys are employed by Gateway, much less are engaged in criminal activity, are exposed to narcotic substances, or have admitted any association whatsoever with Gateway.
We demand a full and immediate retraction and apology.
Today’s chart for AAPL, GTW, NASDAQ:
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=AAPL&t=1d&l=on&z=l&q=l&c=gtw,^IXIC
I surmise when The Street heard Gateway had an ‘iMac Killer’ the price went up, then they saw the pics……..
(Chart as at 1:03pm)
The “Beleaguered Gateway” joke has really become tired. Apple faithful pissed and moaned about it’s overuse, so how about we act like bigger people and drop the stones instead of throwing them?
Second, nobody but MDN themselves have pegged this as an “iMac killer.” I don’t see any mention of the iMac from Gateway, actually.
Yes it’s an ugly piece of crap. How about we focus on how shitty it is, and not try to create some sort of Apple/Gateway rivalry that simply does not exist?
I am dying a slow death laughing my A$$ off.
Actually, if you examine the pictures, it DOES have a DVD/CD-RW drive, AND a PC card slot plus various other memory card slots. I do not, however, see a floppy drive. So, this thing is A LOT better than you are all saying… ha ha ha
As I said: it is a classic already
What fun would that be rageous?
It is utterly amazing how gateway cant seem to figure things out. Maybe they should change their name or just sell to another company cause they are circling the white porcelain gods throat at the moment. It looks like that ATM/Phone/whatever else POS that Adam west (60s Batman) tries to pander on tv late at night.
It’s not a design, it’s an application for bancruptcy.
At least I won’t be able to knock over the Gateway as I imagine I might do with an iMac – of course, I’ve never seen an iMac G5, but whatever. (P.S. My husband forced me to write this.)
LMAO LMAO LMAO … you can tell that was designed by a Wintel PC person/team. That THING is HIDEOUS.
This article, the MDN take and the reader comments are precisely why I love MDN! Hilarious reading – where else do you read all of the comments, but MDN?
seen all pictures. This can’t be serious right? Tomorrow all this will be revealed as a Photoshop joke. I mean, are the majority of computer users idiot to even contemplate the idea of – urghh – buying that aborted joke or what?
Uhmmm, wait, the majority is on Windows… Oh well, they are that idiot.
It’s a crime against humanity.
You Mac-ies and your toy… Ah, forget it. I can’t even troll on this one. That is one of the butt ugliest looking POS’s that has ever been created. Looks worse than a DEC 80086 workstation. Those designers need to be euthanized.
It is not my husband. I only write when I have a surge in hormones. Otherwise I am dyslexic AND I have a weird taste. Otherwise how do you think I could hame married Robert?
PS
That Gateway is a beauty
Don’t be so cruel you lot!
This is Gateway saying goodbye to us.
This is the tragic swansong of a demented clown.
a toy, A Toy, A TOY! Someone, someone to shoot the Wunnut troll!
LOL
Wunnut: you are supposed to truly like that… thing and demonstrate here how its form factor is a winner.
“All the Windows viruses you could ever want contained within the world’s ugliest design running on inefficient 32-bit Intel processors – and we didn’t forget the floppy!”
Judge Bork, you made me ROTFLMFAO!
You know, not even a mother could love that thing. Yet, there are people who will buy it and say… “look an all in one computer!”
Hee hee haar haar … tears in my eyes.