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Here's a website with all the switch ads http://plex.us/videos/switch.html

um, yeah. you don't work for them. riiiiiight. ;-)

Go-L is a known scam business, selling(?) over-hyped, under-powered equipment
as other-worldly, "killer" rigs. their web-site is a photoshop composite of product
images from other manufacturers/vendors with configurations that are at best, suspicious.
i was going to quote directly from their website, but it's really too much effort to refute
a scam-site when careful shoppers will see that everything is "pre-order".

here's a link from 2004:

http://www.notebookforums.com/showthread.php?t=142 10

and one from 2003:

http://thewolfweb.com/message_topic.aspx?topic=132 020

and from 2005:

http://plex.us/outbursts/liebermann.html

and if my poor memory serves me, there was also some noise about this on
some of the other enthusiast sites/forums; some review sites asked for
systems to review and benchmark but were 'rebuffed', to put it politely.
there was one actual review of a notebook they purported to sell, but overall, the
evidence is largely not positive.

their weird history of claiming ultra-high(read: impossible) performance systems
with conflicting equipment specs and configurations lead many to assume
they were fakers, or at the very least over-representing their products. there are
reports of buyers who paid large sums($20k) but never received anything.
i'd ignore these guys for now.

that said, there are solid state disks available for sale, but at extraordinarily
high cost. a google search turns up

Results 1 - 10 of about 1,790,000 for solid-state disk. (0.30 seconds)

which i won't even begin to quote here. ;-)

This and so much more.

(From this website).

Go-L doesn't actually make that huge monitor, and are most likely a bunch of frauds. Check out ViewSonic's, Panoram Tech's and 9XMedia's models.

I don't get it, outside the US, Japan has one of the biggest populations of Apple devotees (they even made Japanese switch commercials). Plus, pop music is an obsession over there. I can't afford to spend $30 on imported CDs, and I'm not going to buy Taiwanese bootlegs. I want my JPop dammit!

Don't believe that FUD. A bunch of Mac enthusiasts have debunked the notion that this so-called "go-l" actually exists.

Frankly, I vomit at the notion that those alleged "displays" are real. Have you ever seen someone who owned one? I know I haven't, and I know a lot of people.

Sincerely,
Seth Finklestein
Technology Advocate

ah, you misunderstand. it was the desktops that attracted the rumors of fraud.

the original descriptions were completely off the wall and since their 3.8GHz model appeared around the time that the 3.0GHz p4 hit the shelves, the timing certainly added to it.

i called them myself, but over the course of two weeks, i never reached anyone but voicemail.

this site has much more indepth information about these guys. it would appear that they are not a fake after all, but there is certainly still something fishy about them. god knows you'd never catch me doing business with em.

Amazing notebooks, it's true.
Unfortunately go-l seems to be all a hoax.

But a pretty good one.

This looks strikingly similar to the Liebermann Inc hoax.

Why the photoshop jobs? You'd think a company capable of making these devices might be a little interested in actually proving their existence.

I.E., be wary which amateurish websites you make $10000+ credit card transactions with.

Just like the other site, which has been debunked.

I could be wrong though. But the design and the feel of the whole site is totally unprofessional.