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
The Top Ten Reactions to the Gateway Profile 5.5:
10. Dilbert’s pointy-haired boss rightsized all those annoying art & design majors. After all, it’s just a pencil & a piece of paper!
9. On the bright side, schools and libraries can save money by not having to buy expensive anti-theft cables & locks.
8. I can’t wait to hear the clog-stomping sound when it leaps over iMac G5s in their next computer-generated commercial.
7. It makes their PREVIOUS all-in-one units look, well, uh, maybe a little better…
6. Now we know what happened to the Pontiac Aztec designers who couldn’t get jobs making props for cable sci-fi specials.
5. Great. Now my eyes are mad at me.
4. I was a student audio-video helper in elementary school in the mid 1970s, and if this had somehow travelled back in time, I might have thought it was cool. Then again, at the time I thought the origial Magnavox Odyssey was the coolest thing that had ever been or ever would be.
3. If you go to Gateway’s own pages on this, it doesn’t look like PC Magazine’s photos. The metal trim is a different color and the keyboard is all black plastic. And it still looks terrible!
2. Film-maker John Waters says his personal style is based on the idea that “bad is good.” (Seriously!) This computer was designed by people who share that aesthetic.
1. At last, Windows hardware that doesn’t show up Windows software in terms of design!
No solo es horrible, sino que hay que a�adirle la fuente de alimentaci�n y es m�s caro que el iMac y el m�s barato menos de 1400$ lleva 15″ y 2,8MHz que creo que es bastante menos que el PPC 1,6
Hey MDN, can we sticky this thread?
What a gaustly design! It looks like a kitchen appliance with an LCD screen, and it is even uglier than a kitchen appliance.
Lorne Greene said: “I had a device like that back when we were shooting Battlestar Galactica…in 1978.”
Wow. This thing is so fugly, the dead are rising in order take potshots at it. ROFL!
Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah……. ah ah ah
Do they want to compare this with what?
Where is the system, where is my Apple?
FG
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