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 color scheme is fan-friggin-tastic!! I’ve seen cow pies that looked better!
OMG! No Mac OS X. No 64-bit G5. And severely butt-ugly to boot. Excuse me, I have to go puke.
It looks like a piece of A/V equipment my elementary school had in the 1970s. The kind of thing they keep beside the film strip projectors and ditto machines.
*BLAAAAAARGH*
I just lost my lunch!
WTF?!
Shared video memory…hahahahahahahaha
Did they try to make this thing ugly?
flushing sound.
that is ugly, I don’t know what else to say
Our city library system uses the previous version of Gateway’s AIO system for their catalog access machines. I wonder how long it will be until one of these atrocities makes its way into the local branch. Ick!
That is so funny I think I just pee’d myself.
I can see Mary Enderle in the queue to buy one already
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Oh my goodness. It looks like something pulled out of a trash pile in the 1950s. Sony makes the only other all-in-one other than Apple that looks good. Gateway has absolutely no concept of style. It’s astonishing. This has got to be some kind of joke or something.
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!
I am appalled. Take one look at the price and spec, and Just Say No.
That thing is hideous. All those finger print smudges on the screen don’t help either…
All that for under $1,400? I wouldn’t pay under 14-cents for that piece of shit.
Judge Bork, you owe me a new keyboard! I just ruined mine by spraying Diet Coke all over it while reading your post. LOL!
“Building upon five generations of design enhancements…”
Okay, so in order to match Apple’s iMac G5, I figure that Gateway needs to build upon about 45 more generations. Unfortunately for Gateway, I don’t believe that they have even 1 or 2 more gens left before they go belly up!
I’ll second that *BLAAAAAARGH*… That has to be the ugliest computer from a ‘major’ computer maker I’ve ever seen…
Is it made of bakelite?
The computer as monitor stand. Interesting… at least holds the monitor up, can’t see much else good for it though.
“IMAC KILLER” ???? The only way that piece of crap would KILL and iMac is if the iMac took a look at it and DIED LAUGHING!!!!
I think my job security’s in good shape with the announcement of this … thing.
What? No Bluetooth or Wi-Fi built in. Ony 128MB ram?!!! They obviousy don’t care about the user.
Looks like one of those microfilm readers you see in the city library.
At least the recognized the importance of Firewire.
“IMAC KILLER” ???? The only way that piece of crap would KILL and iMac is if the iMac took a look at it and DIED LAUGHING!!!!
Thanks iMaki that made my day!
ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!
ugh said That thing is hideous. All those finger print smudges on the screen don’t help either…
That’s where even Gateway’s own staff are trying to push it away.
the humanity, the humanity…!
woooooof! what a nasty POS…
see ya gateway.. don’t let the door hit your ass on the way out…
say hi to the cows for me..
There is a power brick which is not shown in the picture.
We got these in my college over the summer. While they’re nicer then the older boxes they had before, when i first saw them, I laughed and thought how much the school had been screwed. Then, I realized that some of my money went into those computers.
Then, I told myself that my money goes into the Graphics (Mac) Lab.
IT HAS A FLOPPY DRIVE??!!!????
Jack A – yes, a floppy, but no DVD drive. Or CD writer. Or sense of style.
Good god thats ugly..
That isn’t a iMac-killer, that’s a beleaguered-Gateway-killer!!
Once upon a time there was a litlle Profile 5.5 computer. All the other computers laughed at it and called it ugly and hidious. Then one day it looked at its reflection in the pond and realised it wasn’t a computer at all!! It was a piece of air ducting glued onto an old eight-track player!! And it was the most beautiful piece of air ducting glued onto an old eight-track player in the whole world. And everyone lived happily ever after.
The End
I have to be honest with you here; this is the ugliest PC I have ever seen. I wouldn’t even trade my 1.2 AMD for that crap. Whoever designed it should commit suicide. More power to anyone who buys that. No very impressive at all.
Try to mount that thing on a wall….no way.
Oh dear. Oh deary deary me. What can one say ?
Schadenfreude just about sums it up I suppose.
http://dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/archive/2000/05/10.html
This looks like a design which surfaced the week after the iMac debut. It was said that it was going to only be sold in Korea.
Looks like the black version is going to be sold by Beleaguered Gateway.
Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop.
Please. Everyone. Write a note to Rob and Mary Enderle to get their opinion of this, uh, um, er, “computer” from Gateway before we trash… uh, provide comments on our own.
What does the Enderle family have to say about this latest offering from Gateway?
Is the microfilm reader ugradeable to microfiche?
I am utterly dismayed that this monstrosity of invention is being marketed as the epitome of Gateway’s research and design. My advice to Gateway employees, look for a new job ASAP.
I thought that nothing could eclipse the Sony V-series computer as a meager example of an all-in-one design. I was wrong.
if you haven’t already, goto the slide show with the link posted by MDNs, and slick on the SIDE PROFILE shot.
OMG – That is the ugliest 70’s looking thing I have ever seen!
Sounds like the starting point is a 15″ display and shared memory graphics for $1399. Tell me again how the iMac G5 is overpriced relative to Windows PC’s?
Enderle? Thurott? This looks like a job for you. Because when reality conflicts with your preconceptions, the best approach is to deny reality…
Looks like an Atari game machine circa 1979 (only with a flat panel) or a TRS-80.
I rubbed my eyes in disbelief! This ugly dung pile is going to transform beleaguered Gateway into dead as a doornail Gateway.
iMac G5 killer? Oh, stop, please stop!!! The laughter is making my stomach hurt!!!
NOW, this is a computer. I hope you all understand now why PC is much better. This thing will shut the iMac sales in a blink.
Notice how sturdy it looks and how stable the all form factor is. You compared with a library microfilm reader. Right: that is a design that stood up to the test of time. This Gateway is a classic already!
(just shakes his head)
Sure, it’s an eyesore. That much is obvious. But who exactly called it an “iMac G5 Killer”? I can’t believe Gateway could say that with a straight face.
hehehe
OMG – That is the ugliest! Does Gateway have a bunch of crack-smoking monkeys working as engineers?
Sometimes you just gotta say…WTF?
*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.
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…!! “
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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I’m sorry, but this HAS to be the funniest thread based on the funniest product in years!
I’m glad I wasn’t:
1) Drinking anything
2) Reading this 3-hours after I drank
3) Eating
4) An epileptic
SB
Congrats to everyone who’s posted above me, you’ve made my day!
What a horrible piece of shit!!!
Apparently it IS wall mountable – they even supply the nails.
MSN has missed the funniest bit from the Gateway press release:
“While end users enjoy the Profile’s sleek design, IT managers benefit from the unit’s lower total cost of ownership”
Who said Americans have no sense of irony?
Hey, I have feelings…
🙁
It was a last-minute design damnit… they wanted a top quality 1400 PC… I thought it would have a neat retro design, like in the 80’s…
The new Gateway iSore
Hey, it’s a Gateway? What were you expecting? Industrial design? Class? Good looks? Lust-enducing coolness?
If you were, well, I’m afraid there’s no more hope for you than Gateway’s stock prices.
http://products.gateway.com/products/gconfig/prodhmseries.asp?seg=hm&gcseries=prf5
I can’t get the product demo to run in safari or firefox, though
laughing is good for your health
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We have ordered a number of these elegant computers for the following reasons:
1) It matches the decor of our retro office.
2) The floppy drive allows us to play all of our favorite Windows 95 games that push the shared video memory.
3) It works so very well with the superior Dell DJ mp3 player.
4) It supports the revolutionary Windows Media Player (WiMP) Music Store and other leading lights of the digital download age such as BuyMusic.con, WalMartMusic.con, and Napster.con.
5) The heat generated by the Pentium 4 chip will cut oyr winter heating bill in half.
If you can see the demo, it’s even more sad…
I truly feel for those guys – I love their boxes!
SB
Is it made of bakelite?
I was thinking the same thing! It looks like the base of an old oscillating fan.
Gateway bought eMachines (the new name for Packard Bell), so you figure they were going for the lowest end of the market. I can’t understand why they even attempted something like this. And shared RAM; man, that’s going to make for some great game action! Maybe Steve Ballmer had a hand in the design…
“Apparently it IS wall mountable – they even supply the nails.”
Hoot!
When I first saw this thing I figured it had to be a joke from somebody with a fine sense of humor.
Even better; somewhere out there are engineers and marketing people who actually believe this is a quality product. More justification for a drain and fill of the shallow end of the gene pool.
Truly a classic thread, no doubt. So I’ll toss in a few more words…
As for the topic that resulted in such hilarity, vitriol and wit, I, too, will wonder if anyone else will pick up on the lame attempt by Gateway to create an “all in one” unit. After all, there’s a missing letter and apostrophe in their name to begin with. Shouldn’t it be “Gate’sway”? This is a total an utter flop. I’ll be surprised if they even give these things away. I’m with those who say it looks like a microfiche. It might have been fashionable and “high tech” enough for Space 1999 or Buck Rogers. Then again, probably not.
I can not believe some one would make a pc so ugly. That thing is so bad I feel sorry for Gateway. They need to stop making pc’s asap. Gosh, what an eye sore.
If they made personal computers back in the 50’s, do you think thats what it would look like? Time for a new drawing board, that one is broken!
OMG are they serious….i thought this was a joke…u guys are funny as hell also nice comments
Wow today is a beautifull day
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This thread is so much fun and liberating! (hey Gateway users, don’t feel offended)
My take is that some people are so much in denial towards the simple beauty of Apple designs that their minds make up some inverted bizarro logic about what is beautifull, and there you have the results…Imagine… some people working at Gateway really believe it looks much better than the G5 iMac!
You don’t understand! You have to see its various angles!!
It’s like a Gateway NG982734 on Steroids!
Well I didn’t barf. But the graphite body with brushed nickel accents reminds me of Mr. Spock’s tricorder (circa 1966). It’s clearly a paradigm example of American precision engineering and industrial design (like an AMC Pacer).
Twenty Benson:
Speaking of nails, this thing must the last nail in the coffin for Gateway.
LOL
Longhorn BBQ at my place!
LOL
Keep it up Gateway! It’s work of this , uh, caliber that helps me appreciate my Apple hardware!
Looks like a Russian-cold-war model to me
A guiding principle of good design is that FORM follows FUNCTION. In this case, the designers were obviously misinFORMed and their design skills malFUNCTIONed.
See, you guys have just been using Macs too long to understand.
In the Windows world, if it’s not the usual “black-and-silver is the new beige” desktop box or tower, it’s “design”.
In the Windows world, the floppy has only departed so recently that many people still have tons of stuff on them, and won’t buy a computer without one.
The Windows world is run by bean-counters for whom beauty is all very well and good, but not if you can get ugly much cheaper. Style and comfort are frivolous luxuries that don’t add to the bottom line.
I’ve never seen a computer that looked more like it was thought up by a committee of accountants than this new Profile.
The G5 iMac: Where did the computer go?
The Gateway Profile 5.5: We glued it under the monitor stand! Nice, huh?
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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