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Mar 27, 2006, 12:44 AM
 

(via Engadget)
Specs:
Processor: Intel Pentium 4 at 3.0 GHz
Memory: 512MB DDR2 533MHz SDRAM
Hard drive: 80GB SATA II
Optical drive: CD-RW/DVD Combo Drive
Expansion slots: 1 PCI-E x16, 2 PCI slots
Display: 17-inch LCD Display
Video: Integrated Intel Graphics 950

Price: US $1,199

The floppy drive in the picture above is an optional add-on.


Just for giggles:

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Hard drive: 160GB SATA II
Optical drive: DVD-RW/DVD Superdrive
Expansion slots: none
Display: 17-inch LCD Display at 1440x900
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Price: US $1,299
     
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Mar 27, 2006, 12:49 AM
 
I'm so getting me one of thems.
     
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Mar 27, 2006, 12:51 AM
 
ugh... hideous!
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Mar 27, 2006, 12:56 AM
 
Why do people still insist on floppies?

and yeah, it would have been decent looking if this were 1995.
     
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Mar 27, 2006, 12:57 AM
 


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Mar 27, 2006, 01:04 AM
 
Originally Posted by Mithras
"It's weird the way 'finger puppets' sounds ok as a noun..."
     
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Mar 27, 2006, 01:26 AM
 
OOOOOOO...

A floppy drive! Amazing state-of-the-art technology!

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UGLY AND STUPID.
     
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Mar 27, 2006, 01:30 AM
 
I was under the impression that Gateway was dead. Looks like they`re still alive and kicking crap out onto the world.
     
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Mar 27, 2006, 02:05 AM
 
lmfao,

wow, that is a horrible product.
I think i may die in laughter over that imitation.

Originally Posted by sek929
Why do people still insist on floppies?
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cheaper than a thumb drive??
     
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Mar 27, 2006, 02:14 AM
 
Haha so they basically took one of their smallish desktops and slapped an LCD on top of it. Great work!
I crap better looking All-In-One designs than that.
     
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Mar 27, 2006, 08:32 AM
 
Looks like a early 80s VCR tv combo
     
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Mar 27, 2006, 08:42 AM
 
Originally Posted by krillbee
cheaper than a thumb drive??
If anyone in any proffesion handed me a floppy disk I think I'd smack them with it.
     
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Mar 27, 2006, 09:29 AM
 
Originally Posted by krillbee
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cheaper than a thumb drive??
I've been saying since 1998 that whatever is small enough to fit onto a floppy is small enough to be better sent by e-mail. And what can't be sent via e-mail sure as hell won't fit on a floppy.

This was true eight years ago, and it's certainly still true now.
     
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Mar 27, 2006, 09:32 AM
 
its not that close now that i look at it, but this is the first thing i thought of when seeing that pic.

     
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Mar 27, 2006, 09:41 AM
 
Did they unfreeze someone from 1998 to design it?
     
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Mar 27, 2006, 09:43 AM
 
I do have to wonder:

What is the point of an all-in-one if you're gonna make it THAT?
     
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Mar 27, 2006, 09:49 AM
 
It comes with an Integrated Intel Graphics !!

Comparing the specs… the iMac is a great value.
     
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Mar 27, 2006, 09:52 AM
 
kevin's right, it does appear they've included a handy VHS player... but I wonder if it does 8-track?
     
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Mar 27, 2006, 11:08 AM
 
What's the point? The footprint is still HUGE!
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Mar 27, 2006, 11:16 AM
 
kinda the point of being all in one is that it's all in one (G4 iMac notwithstanding...)
I wonder if the $100 difference is enough to push people. Seriously. Sure it's Higher clock speed, yes, but I've recently learned at my work that in Windows, clock speed's relatively worthless.
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Mar 27, 2006, 12:00 PM
 
I find it hard to believe there would be anyone stupid enough to buy that.

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Mar 27, 2006, 12:16 PM
 
Does it come in beige?
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Mar 27, 2006, 12:41 PM
 
Originally Posted by scaught
its not that close now that i look at it, but this is the first thing i thought of when seeing that pic.

And the MacTV still looks better!
     
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Mar 27, 2006, 02:30 PM
 
lol, I can't stop laughing. I thought someone resurrected an old thread from back in the days of the iMac G3 of G4. The thing is hideous.
     
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Mar 27, 2006, 03:03 PM
 
Gateway, going out of business almost as long as Apple
     
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Mar 27, 2006, 07:19 PM
 
two funniest posts on this page.

christ: Does it come in beige?

Dakar: Did they unfreeze someone from 1998 to design it?
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Mar 27, 2006, 07:32 PM
 
yuck
     
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Mar 27, 2006, 11:36 PM
 
Originally Posted by Salty
Gateway, going out of business almost as long as Apple
Unlike Apple, Gateway deserves to go down...

-t
     
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Mar 28, 2006, 12:37 AM
 
Originally Posted by analogika
I've been saying since 1998 that whatever is small enough to fit onto a floppy is small enough to be better sent by e-mail. And what can't be sent via e-mail sure as hell won't fit on a floppy.

This was true eight years ago, and it's certainly still true now.
Some fools are still using dialup. In that situation, a floppy disk is the answer, if you need to give them something small.

I guess I'm not really used to sending 1 mb files through email. Couldnt that take awhile, if your email providor got used a lot?
     
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Mar 28, 2006, 01:12 AM
 
Originally Posted by Kevin
Looks like a early 80s VCR tv combo
EXACTLY my thought!

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Mar 28, 2006, 01:40 AM
 
Originally Posted by Kevin
Looks like a early 80s VCR tv combo
Yup. All it needs is a blinking red 12:00 on the front.



Gateway should be congratulated for giving the Sony iMac Killer a run for its money in the ugly competition.
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Mar 28, 2006, 02:16 AM
 
Originally Posted by krillbee
Some fools are still using dialup. In that situation, a floppy disk is the answer, if you need to give them something small.

I guess I'm not really used to sending 1 mb files through email. Couldnt that take awhile, if your email providor got used a lot?
It worked fine the three years I was still on dial-up after I replaced my 5200 with an iMac in '99.

Yeah, a 1MB file takes three to five minutes via dial-up, depending on quality of the connection.

Delivering a floppy takes hours to days, depending on quality of the connection.

Floppies have been obsolete and irrelevant for eight years.

Period.
     
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Mar 28, 2006, 02:35 AM
 
Maybe they could get Darth Vader to be it's spokesman?
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Mar 28, 2006, 02:50 AM
 
Originally Posted by analogika
It worked fine the three years I was still on dial-up after I replaced my 5200 with an iMac in '99.

Yeah, a 1MB file takes three to five minutes via dial-up, depending on quality of the connection.

Delivering a floppy takes hours to days, depending on quality of the connection.

Floppies have been obsolete and irrelevant for eight years.

Period.
I will always have a floppy drive in my PC, until they phase out that port on motherboards
     
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Mar 28, 2006, 03:08 AM
 
Originally Posted by Dakar
Did they unfreeze someone from 1998 to design it?
Exactly, one could think someone has bumped this thread from something like six years ago… this is an awful creation.
     
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Mar 28, 2006, 03:32 AM
 
Originally Posted by krillbee
I will always have a floppy drive in my PC, until they phase out that port on motherboards
Why?? I'm really confused. The floppy disk is the most unreliable form of media I've ever know. Forget backing up your data to floppies...you need to back up your floppies.
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Mar 28, 2006, 03:47 AM
 
Some antique operating systems required a "boot floppy" for installation.

I shudder at the thought.

The last "boot floppy" I had was the "System Install Disk 1" from 7.5.something.

A good ten years ago?
     
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Mar 28, 2006, 04:36 AM
 
Originally Posted by lothar56
Why?? I'm really confused. The floppy disk is the most unreliable form of media I've ever know. Forget backing up your data to floppies...you need to back up your floppies.
but floppies are cheap! And new ones are plenty reliable. Its when they become old and used that you need to toss them. Seriously, 50% of the students at my college use a floppy disk, because they dont want to pay for a thumb drive.

and all older computers are capable of booting off floppies. Its only in the last few years that PCs have been able to boot from USB. Sure one could boot from cd media, but then whenever you change the contents on the media, you have to burn a new disc or burn it on the old one and hope the cd drive can still read it.

you can copy drivers onto disks to transfer them over to old computers (like to get the network card working)

For some motherboards, a boot disk, is the only way to flash your bios, since the flash utility was written for dos. (or you could boot from a thumb drive i suppose if you wanted to reformat your thumb drive, yay)

Floppy disks still have their usages. Think about it, PC makers include them in their machines, and motherboards continue to have a port on there for them.


Most people who want to rid themselves of the floppy disk, I think are just trying to seem cool, like they dont wanna be seen around that old stuff. They are too fancy for a floppy.


I never save anything important only to a floppy. Always save to hard disk, and would only use a floppy if I just didnt want to bring my valuable thumb drive with me to school.

Screw emailing documents, sometimes at school the network isnt working, so i cant get to my email providor. Floppy disk for the win!
     
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Mar 28, 2006, 07:28 AM
 
Here ya go, it's a 128MB jumpdrive for $7.50. Or here's a USB 2.0 model for $11.50. You can get a bunch for your friends, too. Jesus. Tell you what: PM me and *I'll* buy the lot of them for you, just to have the pleasure of seeing you give up on floppies.
     
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Mar 28, 2006, 08:17 AM
 
I was sick of buying software back in the floppy days. I always had to have them send me a new disk because one was always screwed up or faulty.
     
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Mar 28, 2006, 04:15 PM
 
Ick. 1988 wants its computer back.
     
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Mar 28, 2006, 04:25 PM
 
Geesh, you can get 64 and 128 MB thumbs drives for free in so many places (sometime after rebate, but ok). Just be a little resourceful.

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Mar 28, 2006, 04:30 PM
 
what will be even funnier than that thing is its sales numbers in a few months.
     
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Mar 28, 2006, 04:34 PM
 
Totally rad.®
     
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Mar 28, 2006, 06:32 PM
 
Who designs those things experts or factory line workers?
     
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Mar 28, 2006, 08:42 PM
 
man that floppy drive brings back some painful memories...
     
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Mar 28, 2006, 10:13 PM
 
Dude, I use my Shuffle for all my Teaching type documents. Plus I can listen to it on my daily commute. People mocked me for using an iMac when they first came out. Until I asked them what they used it for. Word documents. Which was kind of funny in college when people would lose important papers because their floppies (which they had been using for 4 years) died on them.
     
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Aug 4, 2006, 06:51 AM
 
Ugh that thing is hideous! I'm suprised they aren't still using the 5.25" floppy drives. those were awesome
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Aug 4, 2006, 09:29 AM
 
FWIW some motherboards still require a floppy drive to flash the bios. Mine can do it from within Windows so I don't need one, but I really don't see why anyone would make a computer that couldn't.
Anyone know how these are doing?
     
 
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