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
this is such a piece of crap!! what the hell happen to seamless design?
looks like somehting out of a B-film sci-fi flick
what an insult to compare it to the imac
Over the summer I was forced to install a lab full of these machines at my work for a junior college. They are just as ugly in person. They have a monster power brick and they look like they would tip over easily.
Now granted the machines they replaced were original pentium machines, so it was sort of an upgrade. but yeah they still have a floppy and still have key board and mouse legacy ports even though it shipped with a USB optical mouse.
The School paid near $1800 for the 17″ version. It wasn’t even the newest chipset, also the main memory is shared with the GPU.
The higher ups were really excited about these machines. I laughed a lot and kept my mouth shut when they were in the room.
I prefer the Gateway to the iMac G5 because I can run Solitaire in Windows XP on it as long as I don’t connect to the ‘Net and contract 30 viruses within the first 20 seconds. It also runs Microsoft patches while the iMac G5 is incapable of running them. And I don’t understand the Mac OS X Dock. (I scored a 400 on my SAT’s.) Plus I enjoy the concept of using a computer that doubles as a Microfilm reader. And, finally, nobody will ever steal my Gateway, but you iMac G5 owners need to be constantly wary. Apple is going out of business because of Gateway’s innovations.
A MATCH MADE IN HEAVEN:
A butt-ugly machine perfectly suited to run a butt-ugly, second-rate, consumer-grade, porous Windows XP operating system.
The world is slowly waking up, but the funniest thing about this is that tens of thousands will buy this lump of festering shit and actually be stuck with trying to use it for 3 or so years!
Or maybe that’s the saddest thing about all of this.
Gateway has done it. They finally copied apple
Maybe Dell is making this uhm�computer, for Gateway and selling it to them really, really cheap.
Perhaps they could run some more dancing cow ads and hawk Longhorn as the preinstalled OS. (Cows waiting joyfully in line to hop onto the BBQ spit over an open fire.) T-bone or Rib-eye anyone?�your choice!!
Doesn’t it look like a ColecoVision bastard child?
LOL!
That design is SHIT!
Looks like an old bakerlite radio fro the 1950’s!
This crap is going up against the G5 Imac???
WHAT A LAUGH!!!
MOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Looks like the Gateway industrial designers have been browsing their 1972 Radio Shack catalogs.
If this wasn’t September, I’d think it was an April Fools joke.
If Apple designed something as bad as that there would be mass suicides by mac zealots!
That thing will NEVER sell!
‘Splash!’ – Ive had shit that looks better than that thing!!
Looks to me like Gateway launched this “iMac G5 killer” out of their collective balloon knot. Sh!t, people, wake up already and get a Mac!!!
So many of the cords hang out of the side?
This thing is ugly in the promo pictures. In real life, it would be beyond measure how ugly it is.
And just look at the price: the Gateway, with 17″ screen and combo drive is MORE EXPENSIVE than the comparable iMac.
Guess that’s another Mac v Windows myth gone down in flames…
this is the best thread EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!
and that is the worst looking POS EVER!!!!!!!!
They should make a commercial with this new POS dancing around with Monkeyboy Ballmer
I read all of the “ugly” comments and laughed at many. I won’t comment on the looks of the machine, but instead I’ll make a comparison of this to the new iMac. Essentially they are charging a higher base price for a lesser machine. It runs Windows instead of Mac OS X. It has an extra brick to sit around and look ugly (sorry, that was a “looks” comment). It has a floppy drive for Pete’s sake. It is not wall mountable.
If this thing sells, I’ll be amazed. This may be the last dying gasp of Gateway…
“Building upon five generations of design enhancements…”
Good God, what in the hell did the first generation Profile look like?! I pray for Gateway employees. perhaps they can all go to work in Apple’s new Retail Stores that keep springing up?
It kinda looks like a microscope.
upside-down????!!!!
Judge Bork repost (so good it deserved a second go ’round):
“The best of both worlds? That would be the frigid wastelands of Pluto combined with the searing heat and poisonous gasses of Mercury, I presume.”
“What’s the marketing slogan?”
“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!”
Wow. All these posts and not one person likes it? Ha!
Please, someone, get this POS side-by-side with the G5 iMac and have regular people off the street compare them. See how many Windoze idiots would still pick the Gateway POS because they have been so FUD’d into being afraid to even consider a Mac. The idiots will also probably say, that nice looking Mac costs more too doesn’t it? Then show them the prices. Damn I want to see that.
I think this Gateway POS will actually drive Mac sales.
THEY CAN’T BE SERIOUS!!!
ROTFLMAO!!!
You know Radio Shack and Atari don’t need all this abuse!
You’d think that Gateway would have given up by now?!
Recently, I had to return a piece of software, cuz I couldnt get it to work on my machine…
The Clerk noticed the System Requirements called for Windows 98 or better …then asked me…
“So…whats the problem here??…You DO have Windows 98 or better, dont you??”
I said…
“..I sure do….. I have a Mac…!! “