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
They CANNOT be serious… LOL LOL
Ridiculous…
Credit to MDN for their brilliance in labeling this turd the “iMac G5 Killer.” Doing so contrasts the Apple way with the rest of the great unwashed world of Wintel “box assemblers” in such a way as to basically tell the whole story with just the headline and the image of the Gateway dung pile. Note the restrained MDN Take. Just enough, not too much, because any more would have detracted a bit from the impact.
MDN did it this way instead of just ignoring the debut of this Gateway computer as usual or reporting “Gateway debuts new Profile 5.5” as the rest of the world did/will. The rest of the Mac sites are hopefully taking note and learning a thing or two or a hundred from MDN.
Absolutely beautiful, very subtle, and masterful. This headline should be a case study in mass communications class. Keep up the great work, please!
No other Mac sites even have this story, but MDN has a mile long thread from Mac users in response to it.
This Gateway is a fine example of really bad design – cobbled together just like “Wintel.” Too many cooks in the kitchen makes a mess. I prefer Apple’s coherent integration and attention to the tiniest detail from the OS to the apps to the hardware. It’s the best way to go – maybe not for market share, but definitely for the end user of the personal computer!
sigh… what can I add that hasn’t already been said?
–FLOPPY drive!
–it’s not April Fool’s Day
–ugliest POS ever produced…
Well I guess it’s like the classic Twilight Zone “Eye of the Beholder” episode: maybe in some parallel universe this is considered more attractive than the iMac.
“Too many cooks in the kitchen makes a mess.”
That’s the perfect description of WINTEL! Microsoft makes the shoddy OS and the Gateways and Dells of the world make the shoddy hardware and together they cannot ever seem to work smoothly as a whole solution. The Mac works because Apple is the master chef in control and they care about the details.
FUBAR.
I rest my case.
This may be just the design that Mary (Enderle) is looking for to praise. She hates the “unfinished” iMac G5.
mac dood:
ha ha…not! YOU FAIL IT
Is this satrical?
Did anyone else notice, A POWER BRICK! Apple moved past that design flaw 4 years ago
Hmm, costs more than the iMac G5 and is also much uglier. Oh yeah, they’ll sell the hell out of these things…
…NOT!
I had a device like that back when we were shooting Battlestar Galactica…in 1978.
FUBAR it is!
Apple could make a great ad out of this…
Think Different… What do you prefer?
The design looks dated already, and cheap too. It’s not something I would want to show to anyone. It must be a device for your closet.
Looks like a microfiche reader from 1962.
“The only way that piece of crap would KILL and iMac is if the iMac took a look at it and DIED LAUGHING!!!!”
Or if someone used it like the blunt instrument it is to smash the iMac. Words fail me. I honestly can’t believe that it could have been that ugly. No, I said to myself, this has to be some sublime joke. I took a second look but it wasn’t getting any better, and I’m damned sure not taking a third. “Profile” huh? More like a mug shot.
Did Gateway buy one of the props from the original Star Trek series on eBay or something? I’m only asking because it looks like it was designed by a Klingon.
Today’s word is “fugly”, boys and girls.
Bizarro Jeff
i have never laughed so much, and so long, in my entire life!!! lolololo… oh, shit, here I go again.. hahahahahah (wiping tears) hoohoohoohoo…
I guess my wife isn’t that fugly afterall.
It’s almost indescribably hideous. One risks turning to stone merely by looking at it, and yet one is compelled to do so by the sheer grotesqueness of its design.
This is real?!?!?
I thought it was a joke! You know, April fools stuff.
It’s real?
Hmmmm… definitely retro.
ComputerWorld says the iMac looks like something Kubrick or Lucas might use. The Gateway thing looks like something Mel Brooks would use in a sequel to SpaceBalls.
I thought the floppy drive might have been a PC Card slot… guess I was mistaken.
Hey, at least it’s got Firewire
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