 |
 |
Gateways answer to the iMac...
|
|
|
|
|
Professional Poster
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: In bits and pieces on Cloud City
Status:
Offline
|
|
|
|
|
"Curse my metal body, I wasn't fast enough!"
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Elite
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: sic semper tyrannis
Status:
Offline
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Professional Poster
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: In bits and pieces on Cloud City
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally posted by dav:
how's the graphics card?
Who cares! It has a floppy drive!!!
|
|
"Curse my metal body, I wasn't fast enough!"
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Elite
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Cambridge UK
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally posted by dav:
how's the graphics card?
It has Intel integrated graphics, the only thing suckier than the 5200 Ultra  
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Elite
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Parker, Colorado
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally posted by dav:
how's the graphics card?
"...integrated Intel graphics..." equates to "...greatly_enhanced graphics capabilities."
Greatly enhanced graphics over what? An Etch-A-Sketch?
And a floppy drive too! wOOt! Wonder if a cassette drive is available?
|
|
Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Elite
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Boynton Beach, Florida, USA
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally posted by Rev-O:
"...integrated Intel graphics..." equates to "...greatly_enhanced graphics capabilities."
Greatly enhanced graphics over what? An Etch-A-Sketch?
And a floppy drive too! wOOt! Wonder if a cassette drive is available?
I would only buy it if it could read my punchcards!
|
|
2.7Ghz 15" Mid 2012 MBP 16GB RAM 7.2k 750GB HD anti-glare display|64GB iPad4 ATT LTE|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Ithaca, NY
Status:
Offline
|
|
What's it sitting on top of, a cash register?
|
|
"Leave it. Leave it, it's fine. It's fine. I WILL DESTROY YOU!" -Morbo
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: planning a comeback !
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally posted by Disgruntled Head of C-3PO:
Who cares! It has a floppy drive!!!
 
-t
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Elite
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Anywhere but here.
Status:
Offline
|
|
It's also got built in gigabit ethernet.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Elite
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Netherlands
Status:
Offline
|
|
hear hear, this old man telling stories !
when the first imacs came out (1998), gateway followed up with all-in-one computers too. they had a cow-print on them. It's quite pathetic to lag a couple of month behind your rolemodel
|
|
{Animated sigs are not allowed.}
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2004
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally posted by Rev-O:
"...integrated Intel graphics..." equates to "...greatly_enhanced graphics capabilities."
Greatly enhanced graphics over what? An Etch-A-Sketch?
Hey, don't put down the Etch-A-Sketch. Life was better back then when you could use your brain and test your patience for two hours, unlike today where we get pissed off because we got fragged the moment we entered a multiplayer arena.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Behind the dryer, looking for a matching sock
Status:
Offline
|
|
Someone please take Gateway out back and put it out of its misery already.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posting Junkie
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Salamanca, España
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally posted by Krypton:
It has Intel integrated graphics, the only thing suckier than the 5200 Ultra
Yep
|
|
I could take Sean Connery in a fight... I could definitely take him.
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: I don't know anymore!
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally posted by the_glassman:
It's also got built in gigabit ethernet.
Well, by golly, I'm going to run out and buy me one.
|
|
Why is there always money for war, but none for education?
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Professional Poster
Join Date: Aug 2001
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally posted by the_glassman:
It's also got built in gigabit ethernet.
Why do you have an epididymis as your sig?
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Outfield - #24
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally posted by cjrivera:
Why do you have an epididymis as your sig?
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Senior User
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Milwaukee
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally posted by Disgruntled Head of C-3PO:
Who cares! It has a floppy drive!!!
what's a floppy drive?
|
-nate
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Elite
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: The City Of Diamonds
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally posted by nate_02:
what's a floppy drive?
There is ALWAYS somebody who says this.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Elite
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Theory - everything works in theory
Status:
Offline
|
|
$1,400? With those specs and the way it looks, it should not cost more than say, $800.
Originally posted by RonnieoftheRose:
Hey, don't put down the Etch-A-Sketch. ...
I miss the days of etch-a-sketch and monkey bars. Those were the days.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posting Junkie
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Portland, OR
Status:
Offline
|
|
That machine is a Gateway profile series... which has probably been around since 1998..
|
|
8 Core 2.8 ghz Mac Pro/GF8800/2 23" Cinema Displays, 3.06 ghz Macbook Pro
Once you wanted revolution, now you're the institution, how's it feel to be the man?
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Professional Poster
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Semi Posting Retirement *ReJoice!*
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally posted by dav:
how's the graphics card?
haha
i think the only real competition is from Lluon ... that was damn close ..
|
No trees were killed in the sending of this message. However, a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Elite
Join Date: Aug 2003
Status:
Offline
|
|
|
|
"Unfortunately, no one can be told what Mac OS X is... you must see it for yourself."
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: New Jersey
Status:
Offline
|
|
It should also be noted that the starting price of that thing is $1400, a higher starting point than the iMac.
|
|
Dual 1 ghz MDD with 80 gig and 1.25 DDR
17' Flat Panel Studio Display
14' 800 mhz iBook 30 gig and 256 SDRAM
20 gig iPOD
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Professional Poster
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Semi Posting Retirement *ReJoice!*
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally posted by Matt OS X:
*Vomits*
was it MoS that coined the phrase "New Hotness" ???
|
No trees were killed in the sending of this message. However, a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Outfield - #24
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally posted by Lancer409:
was it MoS that coined the phrase "New Hotness" ???
I suppose (oh, and with the help of Will Smith I might add).
New Hotness!
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Elite
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Australia
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally posted by Disgruntled Head of C-3PO:
Sexy huh?
No, it's bloody ugly. Gateway machines were always ugly. It's so chunky. To hell with that, I'd take OSX and iMac Style anyday!
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Professional Poster
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: In bits and pieces on Cloud City
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally posted by storer:
No, it's bloody ugly. Gateway machines were always ugly. It's so chunky. To hell with that, I'd take OSX and iMac Style anyday!
You took me seriously? 
|
|
"Curse my metal body, I wasn't fast enough!"
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Elite
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Australia
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally posted by Disgruntled Head of C-3PO:
You took me seriously?
yeh...
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: May 1999
Location: New York City
Status:
Offline
|
|
it's when you see the side of this thing that the vomit becomes projectile
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Elite
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Quetzlzacatenango
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally posted by ironknee:
it's when you see the side of this thing that the vomit becomes projectile
Sad.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Retired
Status:
Offline
|
|
Could they have made it suckier?
Oh ya, it runs Windows.
|
|
Power Macintosh Dual G4
SGI Indigo2 6.5.21f
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Elite
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Australia
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally posted by ironknee:
it's when you see the side of this thing that the vomit becomes projectile
oh dear lord save us from gateway....
no wonder they can't sell computers in australia...
that is just the stuff of nightmares
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Elite
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Silicon Valley
Status:
Offline
|
|
Someone needs to be fired who approved that design.
|
Anyone who would letterspace blackletter would steal sheep. - Frederic Goudy
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Winnipeg
Status:
Offline
|
|
This just in, get your new Gateway Profile 5.5 with the Gateway MP3 player... dang... how does that company stay in business...
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Professional Poster
Join Date: Jul 2003
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally posted by ironknee:
it's when you see the side of this thing that the vomit becomes projectile
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Elite
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Semi-Posting Retirement
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally posted by xi_hyperon:
Someone please take Gateway out back and put it out of its misery already.
Moo?
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Senior User
Join Date: Nov 2002
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally posted by ironknee:
it's when you see the side of this thing that the vomit becomes projectile
oh shyte! i wasn't prepared for that.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Apr 2001
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally posted by PB2K:
when the first imacs came out (1998), gateway followed up with all-in-one computers too. they had a cow-print on them. It's quite pathetic to lag a couple of month behind your rolemodel
The Gateway Astro didn't normally have cow print. It looked like this:
The Profile was also shipping around the same time as the Astro:
The Profile shown in this thread above is version 5.5. When the LCD iMac came out, Gateway had the Profile 4 in the commercials of it hopping all around.
|
|
<This space under renovation>
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Professional Poster
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: In bits and pieces on Cloud City
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally posted by Drakino:
The Profile shown in this thread above is version 5.5. When the LCD iMac came out, Gateway had the Profile 4 in the commercials of it hopping all around.
Oh ya, I remember that retardedness.
|
|
"Curse my metal body, I wasn't fast enough!"
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Professional Poster
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: In bits and pieces on Cloud City
Status:
Offline
|
|
Here is better/worse pict:
|
|
"Curse my metal body, I wasn't fast enough!"
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Dedicated MacNNer
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: sleep
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally posted by cjrivera:
Why do you have an epididymis as your sig?
I thought that was gross but now that I know what it is it hurts. As a survivor of http://dictionary.reference.com/sear...q=epididymitis I have to block images from your server. That was the most painful thing I have ever endured. And it was not a STD.
epididymitis
n : painful inflammation of the epididymis
ouch
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Elite
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Australia
Status:
Offline
|
|
OH GOD SOMEONE NEEDS TO BE SHOT OVER THIS!!! SAVE ME ALMIGHTY FATHER!
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Professional Poster
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Semi Posting Retirement *ReJoice!*
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally posted by storer:
OH GOD SOMEONE NEEDS TO BE SHOT OVER THIS!!! SAVE ME ALMIGHTY FATHER!
|
No trees were killed in the sending of this message. However, a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Professional Poster
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Australia
Status:
Offline
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Nov 1999
Location: 888500128, C3, 2nd soft.
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally posted by chalk_outline:
I thought that was gross but now that I know what it is it hurts. As a survivor of http://dictionary.reference.com/sear...q=epididymitis I have to block images from your server. That was the most painful thing I have ever endured. And it was not a STD.
epididymitis
n : painful inflammation of the epididymis
ouch
Had one, too, 'bout ten years ago. I was smart enought to visit a doctor BEFORE it got really bad. (Duh.)
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Dedicated MacNNer
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: sleep
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally posted by Spheric Harlot:
Had one, too, 'bout ten years ago. I was smart enought to visit a doctor BEFORE it got really bad. (Duh.)
I woke up in the morning with testicular pain. As a young man I thought masturbation was the answer. That fixes everything, right? But that hurt like hell and by 6PM I was screaming while curled up in a ball on my bed. The emergency room and a prostate check with some pills fixed me up. Hurt like hell.
I was 17.. And the visit to the emergency room cost $600. And I never paid.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Elite
Join Date: May 2001
Status:
Offline
|
|
I'm using one right now, ironic huh?
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Elite
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Northern VA - Just outside DC
Status:
Offline
|
|
<< The most recent Gateway Profile 5 launched in_ November 2003 with features including a field-serviceable chassis that_ minimizes maintenance costs and an adjustable LCD display for improved_ ergonomics._ The Profile 5.5 builds upon these advances with the latest_ processor and graphics technology from Intel.
___
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_ nIntel Celeron D processor options. >>
===============================================
Is this 1996 all over again?
Field-serviceable chassis?
adjustable LCD display?
easy-to-use floppy?
optical drives accessible from the front of the computer!!!!
800 MHz front-side bus, 1 MB cache??
LOL
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Professional Poster
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Canada
Status:
Offline
|
|
that computer just plain sucks.
most uninspired design EVER.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Nov 1999
Location: 888500128, C3, 2nd soft.
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally posted by chalk_outline:
I woke up in the morning with testicular pain. As a young man I thought masturbation was the answer. That fixes everything, right? But that hurt like hell and by 6PM I was screaming while curled up in a ball on my bed. The emergency room and a prostate check with some pills fixed me up. Hurt like hell.
I was 17.. And the visit to the emergency room cost $600. And I never paid.
Argh.
I guess I was lucky.
ten days on antibiotics, and all was right as rain.
And all us commies (you know, non-Americans), we have mandatory health insurance, so I have no idea what it might have cost. Socialism sucks, right.
-s*
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 
|
|
|
Forum Rules
|
|
|
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
|
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Top