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cannonball_D writes "CNet has an article about the first (?) inevitable PC imitation LCD iMac from Gateway. The design is a step in the right direction, but I still think it has all the tell-tale signs of a cheap knock-off. " It
really looks like it lacks the elegance of the apple design, but I'm all for
the LCD based terminal to be available on x86.
Since Sla$hdot refuses to admit Linux may have security problems, I am posting this to the Linux hippie community to keep you informed and aware. This is a pubic service announcement of RoboTroll trolling industries. What follows is a Redhat security advisory.
Security Advisory - RHSA-2002:043-10
Summary:
Updated openssh packages available
Updated openssh packages are now available for Red Hat Linux 7, 7.1, and7.2 which close a remotely-exploitable vulnerability in sshd.
Description:
Joost Pol has discovered an off-by-one error in all versions of the OpenSSHdaemon (sshd) prior to version 3.1.
This issue could allow an authenticated user to cause sshd to corrupt itsheap, potentially allowing arbitrary code to be executed on the remoteserver. Alternatively, a malicious SSH server could be crafted to attack avulnerable OpenSSH client.
Resolution : We recommend you remove Linux and install Windows on your computer. Please refer to MS Knowledgebase article Q32451.
Users are advised to upgrade to these errata packages containing OpenSSH3.1, which is not vulnerable to this issue.
The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) hasassigned the name CAN-2002-0083 to this issue.
References:/ cvename.cgi?name=CAN- 2002-0083http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openssh-u nix-dev&m=101550282514683
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin
Taking Action
You may address the issues outlined in this advisory in two ways:l ist.pxt
- select your server name by clicking on its name from the list available at the following location, and then schedule an errata update for it: https://rhn.redhat.com/network/systemlist/system_
- run the Update Agent on each affected server.
- We recommend you remove Linux and install Windows on your computer.
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Since we do not have electricity or computers,
you are on the HONOR SYSTEM!
Please delete ALL of your files....
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...long before the new iMac came around.
Not to mention that it looks nothing like the new iMac - the whole system is contained in the same case as the display, which the iMac specifically avoided.
It has a remarkable resemblance to a cow. Black and white curvy patches over a white body. It fits in with Gateway's image, but lacks any of the beauty of the imac.
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Im just a little mouse.
Didn't Monorail (or something like that) do this first, about 4-5 years ago, anyhoo?
Not that their machine was any good, and wasn't very successful commercially, but it *was* an LCD-screen PC with all the guttiwuts behind the LCD.
Ed R.Zahurak
You know, oblivion keeps looking better every day.
With his emphasis on HID. I've seen the iMac in person, and I instantly wanted one. The Gateway, on the other hand, is ugly.
iMac: Fits nicely into the corner of your contemporary flat.
Profile: Fits nicely into the corner of your cell in the cube farm.
of course, i won't be buying either...so WTF...
"That new iMac, it has no expansion slots, no room for my ghetto ISA cards, who cares about it!"
"That new Gateway, while an obvious ripoff, is a step in the right direction"
Before you slashdot people beat the crap out of it...
On topic comment: Hasn't gateway done something like this before? Of am I confused with another OEM outlet?
Article text follows:
Gateway throws a Profile punch at iMac
By Joe Wilcox
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
March 8, 2002, 12:45 PM PT
Apple Computer has whipped up a frenzy with its new flat-panel iMac, and Gateway is getting in on the action.
Gateway, which is trying to regain a stable footing in the marketplace, plans to release its fourth-generation Profile PC this summer, said sources familiar with the product. The all-in-one computer built around an LCD (liquid crystal display) monitor would compete against Apple's popular, new iMac.
The Poway, Calif.-based PC maker got into the all-in-one business with its original Profile computer in June 1999 on the coattails of the first iMac. Gateway, however, did beat Apple to the punch with the first all-in-one computer to feature a flat panel. While Gateway says its current flat panel, Profile 3, is profitable, the Profile line for the most part has experienced only limited success.
The new iMac, which Apple announced in early January, suspends a 15-inch flat-panel monitor from a pivoting arm attached to a half-dome base. IBM also competes in this market with the NetVista, but Big Blue's focus is business. Apple and Gateway both court consumers.
Profile 4 will be a significant upgrade to Profile 3, sources said. The new model will finally bring Pentium 4 processors to Profile and add some features not found on iMac or NetVista. All three companies currently offer computers built around a 15-inch flat-panel display, but Gateway plans to add a second model using a 17-inch monitor, sources said.
Profile 4 also will have USB (universal serial bus) 2.0--the successor to USB 1.1--capitalizing on Gateway's early advantage of offering high-speed connectivity, according to sources. Gateway was the first major PC maker to offer USB 2.0, which ratchets up throughput to 480mbps from 12mbps. But other manufacturers are expected to add the connectivity standard when Intel makes supporting chipsets available later this year.
Gateway also plans to streamline the design, making the Profile 4 look more like a stand-alone flat-panel monitor than the current model does. Gateway's older design places the processor, CD-RW (CD-rewritable) drive and other components directly behind the monitor, giving the Profile 3 a bulky profile when viewed sideways. NetVista takes a similar approach, while the iMac's computer-in-the-half-dome approach separates the computer's guts from the display, which appears to be suspended in the air when supported by the swing arm.
The Profile 4 will take a more compact approach, with the main computer components jutting out slightly from the display, greatly reducing Profile's profile.
Tough times, LCD shortage
Gateway has been struggling since around August 2001. In January, the company announced that it would be cutting more than 15 percent of its remaining work force and closing 19 under-performing stores. It also confirmed a drop in fourth-quarter sales and said price cuts were on the way. This followed a restructuring at the company and earlier price cuts made in an effort to improve market share.
The company will be launching the new model just as PC makers reel from the effects of an LCD panel shortage. Delivery lead times on Profile 3 are currently four weeks. Apple has been hit even harder, with distributor Ingram Micro sitting on about 10 weeks of outstanding dealer orders.
Gateway spokesman Brad Williams declined to comment on any possible successor to the Profile 3, but gladly discussed recent sales increases.
"Profile 3 sales are up nearly twofold since Jan. 7, when the iMac was introduced, and that was helped along by the role that the Profile 3 played at the Olympics," he said. "Those were retrofitted with touch screens for the Olympics. Certainly, we got some boost from the Olympics, but the iMac we think has really created additional demand for us."
Gateway provided 5,700 PCs to the recent Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, with Profile 3 making a strong showing. The Profile PC also is making other high-profile appearances. One model is used in the courtroom where the Microsoft trial goes on its next phase of testimony on March 18.
The competitive fray
Certainly iMac has shined anew the spotlight on PCs incorporating flat-panel monitors into the design, said ARS analyst Toni Duboise. "The more attention that's brought to that kind of system, the better off everybody is." Her reasoning: After years of failures, such as the demise of Dell Computer's WebPC or Compaq Computer's Presario 3500, stylish, more full-featured PCs are beginning to draw in more consumers.
"That higher-end system comes at a premium, and that's going to help Gateway's bottom line," Duboise said. But the ARS analyst questioned whether iMac really had helped Profile sales all that much.
"I'm surprised they said their sales have gone up twofold since the new iMac's release," she said. "I honestly don't know what that means. What I've seen on this end is that their Profile lineup has actually thinned, and by some appearances it hasn't done all that well. In fact, I would say that up until now the Profile hasn't won much acceptance at all."
Technology Business Research analyst Tim Deal doesn't doubt Profile sales are up, but he agrees with Duboise that iMac isn't likely the reason. "I believe any increases in Profile sales would be due to declining prices," he said. "Profile prices have pushed lower and lower and are getting to a more mainstream level."
The Profile 3 was originally priced at $1,999; the Profile 3CX is now listed at $1,699 on Gateway's Web site.
Deal believes that if Gateway can build on its experience with the first three generations of Profile and turn out a compelling design, the all-in-one PC might gain some traction against the iMac. Still, he doesn't see Profile as ever being a big seller for Gateway.
"The Profile is a niche market for Gateway, and it is a profitable one," he said. "Other vendors don't appear to be supporting their all-in-one sales, and some gave up altogether and exited the market. Gateway has supported the Profile through and through and seems content with the fact it's a niche-market opportunity. The company's strategy is to use the Profile as a showpiece and hopefully when executives and front desks use it, other Gateway PCs can be incorporated into the infrastructure."
Duboise said Profile's success, particularly when pitted against the iMac, will depend much on design, and there Gateway faces a tough challenge taking on Apple's computer.
"With this kind of machine, design is key," she said. "People that are looking for an all-in-one machine are usually expecting to pay a premium. If you put an iMac against a Profile, Gateway is going to have to step up to the design. To penetrate this market at all, they're going to have to wow their customers with a new design."
Still, Gateway plans to offer a 17-inch model, which could be a big customer draw, despite iMac's innovative design.
"Large-screen, flat-panel is a big feature market driver," Duboise said. "I think that would be an advantage in Gateway's favor--if they have a 17-inch model that's comparably priced against a 15-inch iMac. That might weigh the scale a little bit in their favor against iMac's design."
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I think when they talk about competing with the new Imac, they meant that it is aimed at a similar section of the market, not that it's competing through aesthetic design.
The new G4 iMac looks like a supermodel, all curvy and slim and sleek and chic.
The Gateway looks like a 60-year-old Janitor.
I know who I'd rather "plug in".
STOP . AMERICA . NOW
This thing looks nothing like the iMac. Its design goals aren't even the same. Computers and monitors have been melded together for years now, why does the introduction of an LCD make it like the iMac?
These "PC glued to the back of the TFT" machines have been available from various vendors long before the new iMac was presented and are therefore not rip-offs.
The 20th Anniversy mac came out in 96 and was an all in one lcd computer. So gateway was not first.
THe picture they show is of the profile 3, not the new profile 4.
I don't see any resemblance. Am I looking at the right picture? Or is gateway cloneing the idea of a LCD and a computer in one box? That's been around since the iMac and cheap LCD's have existed. Overall, if anything, this is a CRT iMac clone.
News for turds. Stuff that splatters.
If anyone bothered to read the article (ie CmdrTaco), you would realise that the picture refers to the Profile 3, Gateways current LCD based computer. The model that Gateway is basing on the new Imac is the Profile 4, which the article does not show.
Not to mention that it looks nothing like the new iMac - the whole system is contained in the same case as the display, which the iMac specifically avoided.
In other words, it looks a bit like an old iMac, except with an LCD panel. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
One problem: where is the *D-ROM drive?
Will I retire or break 10K?
Why not use more "maculine" materials? There is a lot of cool design work you could do with red and blue anodized metals, surgical steel, carbon fiber or other industrial-type materials. Yes, Apple does use something respectable in the Tbook, but the rest of the line is for girls, period.
I like to see Apple's beautiful designs and ideas seep into the general PC marketplace, but once again, the copy is only skin deep. Unless I'm looking at the picture wrong, the Gateway pc won't have the most important function of the new Imac design, i.e. the amazing flexibility of the placement and angle of the monitor.
e x p e c t d e l a y . c o m
I keep asking myself why they have these one-unit computers, but still use keyboards and mouses with cords... These packages seem like exactly what wireless keyboards and mouses would be ideal for
Lots of reasons people stash their computers somewhere inaccessible is because of their lack of aesthetic value. But now that Apple has something with aesthetic value, it seems they ruin it by putting cords everywhere. It wouldn't drive up the price too much to put a wireless receiver in the box, would it?
...it's not about who's copying who. Heck, you're comparing apples to oranges, as there's a considerable design difference in having all the hardware (CPU, RAM, drive, etc...) in the *base* (Apple iMac) as opposed to the LCD (Gateway Profile)
Besides, as you can see from Gateway's Support Page, they've had the Profile for over 2-3 years -- with the first model being a 400MHz machine.
In all fairness, Apple isn't the only one that "Thinks Different" -- of course, I will concede that Gateway's Profile series wasn't too successful, and that Apple once again shows that it has a keen sense of timing -- thus allowing them to "Succeed Different". But to call Gateway's Profile a "knock-off" is not quite fair...
Oh well.
"On topic comment: Hasn't gateway done something like this before? Of am I confused with another OEM outlet?"
Ok as an employee of the cow the Profile series has been around for at least three years and has had the same design as the Profile 3 that is pictured now unless Gateway is going to redesign the system so that it isn't an all in one unit I don't see how this can be considered news or competition with the iMac.
are, unfortunately, untenable in a home with children and cats in it. at least my trusty glass screen will not leak goo all over the place when slashed by the claws of an angry monitor-sitting feline.
Furthermore, where is there room for the cat on a flatscreen anyway? They have to sit in front of the screen, getting static-cling created furballs between you and what you're looking at, or behind the screen, which removes the motivation for the whole computer-cat experience in the first place, pissing off the computer user.
Goat sex free since 2001
Giving the customer what they want.
And if Apple gets pissed and sends in the lawyers, fine.
But know this: I think Gateway will not be cowed!
{mmph..snort..ahahahaa}
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Have you read the moderator guidelines? Well, have you, PUNK? (and I want a Karma: Gnarly option)
Hell, this makes me want to subscribe to Slashdot just to maintain the current level of editorial integrity. God forbid a shortage of funds leads them down the road of c|net banality.
The picture on the article is of the profile 3 (which they have been selling for a long time now.) The new profile 4 is going to look like an iMac, but they havn't released any pictures of it yet. And the article has very little details.
This isn't Timmy's dorm computer you're hitting.
Gateway actually had a PC with a monitor with a built in PC about 4 years ago (I don't think it was LCD). Anyhow, same time the iMac was coming ou,t or even before.
Take a look at Eurocom. They've had the LP260 All-in-one LCD PC for over a year now. They beat Apple to it, and I think it's a very cool design.
Point is, everyone's 'ripping' everyone elses ideas off in today's industry, to the point that you can't really have an original product without hinting other products.
BTW: What's with the redirection of www.slashdot.org to freakydots? I thought there were going to be no pop-under or basically dirty trick ads.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Anyone remember when SUV's really started taking off? All the auto companies started ripping apart pickup trucks and bolting on a new chassis. The end result was a Frankensteined monstrosity that was easy to tip over, handled poorly, and had the worst traits of cars and trucks. I just took a loot at the new Gateway, and it looks like they took a laptop apart and attached it to a metal fan base. It too has the worst features of a laptop and a desktop PC (difficult/impossible to upgrade, relatively immobile, bad ergonomics, and comparatively high price tag).
Where's the design? Half the people who buy these things are looking for something that goes well with the Art Deco interior of their social convergence area.
Can you say iOpener? Sure, I knew you could.
What sound does this Gateway computer make in place of the Mac "bong"? Moo? Hopefully it's a properly digitised "moo" they recorded, otherwise it might end up saying "moof" instead.
In Soviet Russia, Jesus asks: "What Would You Do?"
Why doesn't someone like Dell or Compaq, with their billions of dollars, hire some designers to come in and create some nice looking systems?
There's nothing uglier than a giant case full of empty space. Even their laptops are bigger, thicker, and have less features.
And other than Apple and Sony, does anyone else have integrated FireWire on most/all of their systems? No!
This is completely ridiculous. I'm not against more industrial-style designs in computers (something besides the beige box, please) but how is this masculine vs. feminine? So the iMac doesn't have to be covered in pink fluffy bunnies to be considered "too girly?" Please. It's a computer. It's asexual. (I've never understood people addressing their company's tech. project as "sexy" unless it's porn.)
I guess this is coming from a woman who doesn't need any more testosterone in her life, as she gets more than her daily dose from fellow CS students alone. (but does not feel insecure in the face of either the iMac or this theoretical industrial-influenced computer design.) By the way, everyone I know who owns a VW is a guy.
go eat some chode you asslicking jew
Apple introduced the Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh, which was an all-in-one with an LCD, in May 1997. Oh well... I certainly don't read C|Net for the intelligent reporting. Actually, I'm not sure why I ever click an article that's linked there
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Many have integrated LCD and PC in one unit, Gateway has had the profile series for some time and Micros has been doing it for many many years. Lets not forget .... Laptops :)
As far as PCs-that-look-like-CRT-iMacs go, there are lots of machines being sold under different labels that're all based on the bare-bones Palladine LCDpc, which I review here. It's a pretty nifty piece of gear, actually, provided you can get a bare-bones one for a decent price and don't mind lacerating yourself when you install hardware in it.
Kinda like MS XP vx. OS X comparison. Apple is way better on the design side, but it's more expensive and will run less apps. Same deal for hw and sw.
Talking about the new iMac: has anyone noticed that the screen module tends to become lose from the arm attachment after some use. All the display models I've been playing with exhibit the problem. Could it be a flaw?
PPA, the girl next door.
-- I feel better now. Thanks for asking.
They are smaller, portable, and more powerful than the slow iMacs. Is there even a question of what is the smartest thing to do?
*bah* Now mod me -#inf all you Mac lovers
(A Mac with dual G5@1.8Ghz would have been competetive though)
This thing has nothing to do with the IMac. Gateway isn't, and wasn't, the first to use the "profile pc" design.
When I entered college in the fall of '97, my roommate has a machine like this from Compaq... it featured a Pentium 166 MMX processor, and a fairly crappy LCD.
I'm not sure that Compaq was the first to develop and sell one of these, but they've been around for a while.
I hate getting told that x has been made to copy y because y is popular, when x was really around for a long, long time before y gained any popularity. It reminds me of fashion trends in junior high...
He said, "You'll be able to tell your grandchildren that you helped assemble the first NT supercomputer," and I cringed.
Forget this stuff. Check out the Vaio PCV-W101. It has TV tuner, DVD, 1280x768 LCD, 2 PCMCIA ports, i.Link, USB and what else.
Japan is filled with those products.
If you're into neat designs, look at the Sony: Sony
To put a witty saying into 120 characters, jst rmv ll th vwls.
Why don't you just set your sneakers on fire and blow the hell up willya?
Many PC Manufactures had LCD all in one units prior to the iMac. Eurocom, IBM, even the Gateway
exixted prior to the iMac.
What makes the imac special is the arm, and how you can ajust the lcd in any direction you please
plus its ultra cool styleing.
it could be imitated, but imposible to reporduce.
Calling this a knock off is just stupid.
If I have to have my hands on something all day long, I'd much rather have them be on something feminine than masculine, as I think any straight guy would.
What is the point of a machine that cannot be upgraded? (and no, mac philes, the ability to put an extra DIMM into a system does NOT class it as 'upgradable')
The mac has always promoted form over function; (no wonder it's favoured by designers) when your iMac is getting long in the tooth your options are either throw it away and buy a new one, or turn it into a fish tank.
What's next - go faster stripes?
Integrated custom Bose sound system with woofer/power suppply, integrated TV & FM radio system, S-Video input, and of course the little leather pads on the keyboard. Oh, and the high tech metal bracket holding it up that reportedly cost over a hundred bucks each to manufacture. Originially sold for around $10,000 then as low as $2,000. Of course for 10k it arrived a limo and was set up for you by a tech in a tux (kid you not!) A review from when it first came out is on MacWorld
Bet Gateway doesn't offer a tech in a cow suit to set theirs up...
I don't read ACs: If a post isn't worth so much as a nom de plume to its author then I wont bother either.
Gee, look at how defensive everyone gets when someone mentions that iMacs or VWs may be feminine? I remember this type of reaction...once I was talking with his guy who was so gung ho on his new VW Bug. I mentioned in passing, "dude, isn't that kind of a chick car??"...and I watched his face and heart sink as he realized in a split second that until I shook him out of it, his entire sense of style had been shaped by feminine values.
If you're talking about LCD terminals, IBM was really the first with their NetVista series. While it may have been lacking in power, it's simply ignorant to call Apple pioneers in that area.
----------What the Chiquita banana?
A friend I lived with for a while had an older Gateway Profile 2 or 3 (where he got it from was unknown).
A few comments, having used it a bit:
1) The LCD quality was not very good. Colors were completely off. Off-axis views were not good at all (worse than most LCDs I have seen)
2) The vertically mounted CD-ROM was a frequent problem. I am not sure if the new Profile 4 is going to have the same problem.
3) Celeron-based. Enough said.
4) The LCD eventually crapped out on it for no reason. It was more expensive to replace than the computer was worth at the time.
I have played with the new iMac in a local Apple store and it seemed like a much better machine.
- (c) 2018 Hank Zimmerman
Uhm, yeah .. looks just like the commercial model I saw in a store about .. say .. 6 months ago. It was being used as a Cashier's station. It was Gateway.
Code softly but carry a big magnet.
IBM has had an all-in-one for ages: Netvista
A quote from Apple's website:
Mac OS X is a super-modern operating system...
See, now the Gateway might be trying to improve it's looks, but does it have a SUPER-MODERN operating system?
I would like to trade my VA Linux stocks to RoboTroll Trolling Industries!
The owls are not what they seem
A large LCD screen will spoil their fun. My cats would be miffed with me if I took away this source of entertainment from them.
Oh, I am digressing... Better post without +1 :)
gateway also had a knockoff of the original imac, built-in monitor and all. i think it may have been called the solo or something. the thing to remember here, however, is that this is not aimed at the mac user, it's aimed at grandpa who sees that the imac is $1,799, but shucks ma', good old fashioned american company gateway has the "same thing" for a scant $1,699. in a market where total cost is the only thing that matters to ignorant users, can anyone blame gateway?
If I have to sacrifice funtionallity, for aestics, thats where i draw the line, it's only availble with a 15inch flat screen, it's probably hard to upgrade, it uses usb for everything(which isn't a very bad thing, but usb has it's place, and it's not for hard drives, or cdrw drives) Why didn't they included firewire as an extra feture. Oh and for people who want pretty colours, there should be snap on covers for it, to match the carpet and drapes. :)
"The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows." -Aristotle Onassis
All-in-one PCs with LCDs have been around for a while. NEC and Sharp have had em on and off for years. Never got on the cover of Time magazine tho' The NEC one I saw a few years back went a few better than than the new iMac IMO. Other than the cords going out the back (Ethernet, Power) there was no extra clutter on the desktop.... wireless keyboard and mouse. With a wireless ethernet PC card one could get down to a single cable.
The new iMac is all very elegant and all... but suffers the same problems as the old iMacs... once you start hooking up devices to this sleek "digital hub" pretty soon you have a snarling mass of cables all over your desk and a few power strips encrusted with wall-warts. For this reason I prefer a system that goes under the desk with all cables going through a "cable valve" at the back of the desk.
-DU-...etc...
"Don't sweat the technique."
...is a fool who has never entered a computer store.
They were probably too worried about breathing the same air as those dreaded captital Windows users.
who knows what other chemicals they tamper with
Interesting, isn't it?
After I stopped taking my prozac-type drug, I experienced strange "shocking" feelings during the withdrawal. If I turned my head (or eyes) sharply or heard a sudden noise it felt like my consciousness froze ("snapped out") just for a millisecond and "snapping in" back into myself was almost a physical sensation.
I asked my doctor about it, but he didn't know anything about it. Some web sites about prozac mentioned this side effect, but again there wasn't much information.
It was interesting as long as it lasted. After two and a half months it stopped.
The owls are not what they seem
I recently used one of these for a week on a temporary assignment at work. The unit I used had a Celeron III @ 1.33 GHz, 256 Mb, 30 gig HD, CD-RW, Floppy, PCMCIA slot, USB and Firewire ports, & ethernet connection. It's basically a laptop design on a stand. It worked well enough, although the color scheme of Windows XP was a little hard to distinguish in bad lighting and took some tweaks. One annoyance is that the fan runs only if the chassis gets hot and starts and stops - which was disconcerting in a bullpen with 25 or so of them. I'd not buy one for the house, but for business, they are handy - pull it out of the box, plug in the mouse/keyboard/net connection, boot, clone a standard load off the server, and you are good to go.
Let Jonathan Ive (its designer) go on about how "we wanted the user to violate the sacred plane of the monitor": Better put is it works. Around that high quality (though only 1024x768) perfectly poised LCD display is a frame that lets you casually reach out, grab it, adjust it, swing it about to share with someone else, nudge when you change position.
Just plain flat out unconsciously interact with the Display without needing to fight it or worry about smudging or getting any thing wrong.
That's AWESOME. You don't know how incredible until you've use it; afterwards everything else just sux. A display that fits folks, not the other way around, something Apple gets and the rest of the industry hasn't (nor likely will Gateway if their past is any guide.)
Sure it may look like a "Sunflower", or more like a desk lamp or a face mirror. On the other hand those two are great examples of good design - they're popular because they work and just like they the new iMac screen is adept at putting light right where you want it, in your eyes, from whatever angle you're comfortable with. And if that kinda brilliant design isn't nerdly or butch enough for ya then go back to chipping with rocks 'cause once again Apple has raised the bar for PC design and once folks get a taste they're not going to accept the 2nd rate layouts, hear that Gateway?
I don't read ACs: If a post isn't worth so much as a nom de plume to its author then I wont bother either.
Not only has Gateway been pushing all-in-one-with-lcd computers for a while now but Apple did this with their older (603e based I think) 20th anniversary computer. That was also one sexy machine.
Absolute proof positive that no matter how different product X is from a Mac, Mac people will claim that product X was "ripped off" from the Mac. The proof used to be that Mac people constantly claimed that Windows was a "rip off" of the Mac even though the user interfaces are different in almost every possible way (with the exception of mouse and pixels).
Sometimes it's best to just let stupid people be stupid.
"The new wave is not value-added; it's garbage-subtracted" - Esther Dyson, Dec 1994
Apple isn't the first company to come up with a computer with a floating screen and the CPU in the base--IBM (and perhaps others) did that a few years ago (IBM's earlier designs actually were nicer looking than the current X series).
Personally, I find this kind of design gimmicky anyway. With the Graphite iMac, Apple hit a design sweet spot, but the new iMacs don't do it for me--they atttract too much attention. To me, something like a high-end Sony LCD with a computer the size of an Espresso PC (about the footprint of a CD case) looks much nicer. Sorry, Apple.
i dont get this iMac hype.
if i buy myself a standard pc, chance is that i have to afford as much money as in U.S. whereas if i purchase an iMac i am charged an exclusive price difference of 868 Euro's or 768 USD _more_ than its worth in america. even if i substract my countries sales tax, there remains a difference which i cant base on transporting costs. - to be honest shipping of a container of iMacs to Europe doesnt cost 300 USD per piece.
another cause why i dont like those expensive pieces of hardware thats old as soon as its delivered to you...
your anti-Apple, anti-Mac, anti-OS X nerdisms are fucking BORING.
IBM has had a ripoff like this for a while now. Atleast 2 years ago our school got a lab full of IBMs that look exactly the same as the Gateway version.
Check it out
Considering that FireWire is a *huge* part of the digital hub vision, it would be suicidal on Apple's part to leave it off the new iMac.
Check it out:
http://www.apple.com/imac/specs.html
Well, this is almost news...I've only been using a Gateway Profile at work for the past two years, and it was there before I was. Yes, they've upgraded it a couple of times, and now they're upgrading it again, but it's the same concept, and it was out long before the current iMac. Actually, they're not bad little systems, at least not for our purposes (public web terminal).
"Make it ten--I am only a poor corrupt official."
--Captain Louis Renault (Claude Rains), Casablanca
Why does only Apple manage to produce really good-lookin, stylish PC cases? It shouldn't be very hard to do, should it?
But somehow no Windows-PC maker offers a computer that looks as good as an apple.
Well, time to case-mod that ugly beige box myself, I guess...
an electric guitar is a great stress redirector: it pisses off my neighbours but relaxes me sooo fine...
Folks, read the article. This unit was not an imitation of the iMac. They simply released an updated version of the unit to compete against and use the momentum of the iMac. Gateway's unit is now on its fourth generation.
That being said, you are all right about one thing, it does not have the class and elegance of Apple's design.
A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over. -Benjamin Franklin
I'm sorry but the iMac looks a little like the TRS-80 Model 3 and 4. Apple must have ripped off the design.
For the last time, there's nothing special about these things. They're just laptops that aren't portable. Maybe ok for setting up an internet kiosk somewhere but I can't imagine anyone actually getting one for personal use.
-3Suns
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The Revolution will be Slashdotted
The new iMac has no cords. Look at the advertising photos. There is no mouse cord. There is no power cord. There are no speaker cables. There is no network cable. You will believe this. You will obey the Information Purification Directive. You will accept the power of the Jobs Reality Distortion Field. There are no cords. There are no cords. Fnord.
As another responder pointed out, the surprising thing is, what a lousy deal this is - no DVD, less RAM, less HD... I guess that's what the Microsoft tax will do to ya.
Oh, yeah, one other thing - supermodels, curvy? They have the figures of 12-year-old boys. Curvy models all got fired in the mid-70's, when they hired the anorexic pill-freaks.
I believe IBM did this first with the Netvista line. The netvista predated the imac almost a whole year but was very pricey. I guess it's more in who makes it popular.
Gateway, however, did beat Apple to the punch with the first all-in-one computer to feature a flat panel.
We've had these deployed at work for well over a year now.
How exactly is this a knock-off? And how exactly can you justify trying to charge for this sort of "editing"?
--saint
Nice though these systems look, they just seem to have the limitations of a laptop without any of the advantages?
The picture in the c|net article is of the Gateway Profile 3 which has already been out for a while.
:)
The article itself talks about the Gateway Profile 4 which is coming out this summer. THAT is the one that's supposed to be the "first" PC imitation of the new iMac. It's not out, so there's no picture of it yet.
Yeah, I think c|net putting that picture there made it confusing for people. It obviously confused CmdrTaco.
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up through the G3 AIO (giant tooth)
We call them the "Baldheaded Barbies" at work -- the plastic shield with all the holes in it looks like a doll's head that the hair has been brutally ripped out of.
Then again, maybe I should have spent less time as a child tormenting the girl next door by destroying her toys.
*shrug*
--saint
tail in front of your screen...
sprawling over your keyboard and taking a nap on it...
This is why some of us own chia pets, and not actual animals. (That, and allergies.)
I wonder if anyone's made a Chia-tux?
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What the heck? This frightens me... Dear Slashdot: Gateway has been selling the Profile models for the last 2 years. If you'll note the name: Profile 3. This is the third version of the Profile system. I usually expect Slashdot to be a little more intelligent than this... iMac knock off? I think not.
People have been selling unibody computers for years, it's just that people weren't buying them because you can't upgrade them. If the monitor goes, you have to toss a perfectly good machine.
So, Macintosh makes one (just like the Mac Classic for anybody who's tuned in), and makes it with a flat display, and Gateway makes a flat display unibody, and now it's a knock-off? They might be picking up on a market that Apple openned, but I seem to remember the PC market trying to do this before the iMacs were out with web-pads, funny that nobody else does!
We've had gateway profiles way before the imac was released. If anything, apple ripped this concept (the concept by the way is just a laptop on a stick) from gateway (who ripped it from someone else I'm sure). Hardly fair to compare gateway's much older design with the imac that hadn't even been conceptualized yet.
oh, btw. before you make any comment about the imac looking elegant, please make sure you've seen one IRL. They are suprisingly large and IMHO just plain hideous.
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Eurocom has had these for years, they're probably not as advanced as the Gateway, but still...
Oh, if you think those are a little pricy, keep in mind that the prices are quoted in Canadian Dollars.
They even have a 17" model. Beat that, iMac!
Disclamer: I like macs. I'd like to see a 17" iMac, but something tells me I'm not going to.
God save our Queen, and Heaven bless The Maple Leaf Forever!
Remember a few years back when folks were hacking that cheap-o web subscription device (with flat panel) into a Linux box? What was it called?
Just because it has a flat panel with a computer built in does not make it a Mac 'imitation'..
Or, should we say that Apple is copying Next or SGI by selling non-beige computers?
Lucid dreaming has also been studied in academia but I've never bothered reading that stuff either.
In my mind it's all very simple: reality checks, reality checks and reality checks.
Make it a habit to constantly check whether you're awake or dreaming. After a while you start doing this in your dreams too and that's it.
How to best distinguish between a dream and the reality is something you have to figure out yourself. For me it was reading. My reality check was to look at some text (or the time on my wristwatch), look away for a second and then read the text again. In my dreams texts tend to be volatile and change or even disappear when I look at them for the second time, so realizing that I was dreaming was quite easy. The classical "pinching yourself" technique never worked for me.
Anyway, the point is that the check should be simple and easy to do anywhere. Another good way to spot dreams is to write down recurring dreams right after you wake up. That way to learn to spot familiar dreams.
The hardest part of all this is NOT to wake up and NOT to fall back to normal sleep after you realize you're dreaming. It's like walking on a tight rope in a heavy wind. If you're too heavy-handed in controlling the dream (or if you get too excited to be awake in a dream!), you will wake up. If, on the other hand, you aren't careful you will forget that you're dreaming.
The KISS principle applies very well to lucid dreaming. Keep doing simple things like changing one small aspect of the dreamscape at a time: "find" the stuff you were desperately looking for, open the door you really had to get through or heal the nasty wound you had in the dream. Go with the dream flow, fighting it will wake you up. Levitating in a dream is fun too, but even that requires a surprising amount of concentration at least for me - straight out flying usually wakes me up.
The owls are not what they seem
Go into a store. Look at the shelf devoted to Mac software.
Then go look at the shelves devoted to PC software.
As to the more expensive....that's merely an exercise in sophistry from both points of view.
Windows supporters will argue the price based on the cheapest OEM version they can find.
Mac supporters will try to set limits, as you have, to exclude OEM versions from consideration.
All it speaks to is the fact that Apple one way of obtaining their software and Microsoft has multiple ways.
Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!
Do you even know what you're talking about? If we use your logic than we can say :
Windows XP offers :
- Windows 3.11 software
- Windows 3.0 software
- Windows 95 software
- Windows 98 software
- Windows 2000 software
- Windows XP software
- Command line applications
- X Window System software(yes it runs here too)
so where is this new software that max os x lets me run that i can't run on windows xp? What will run on mac os x that windows xp doesn't have an equivalent to?
er.. i mean i get them as gifts from other... yeah.. thats it. complete with license certificates..
Mmm.....
To carry an analogy to the extreme:
Who remembers the _second_ person to climb mount Everest?
How about the _second_ person to break the sound barrier?
I don't see why it wouldn't. It's not anything magical or mystical. Having to make those reality checks all the time just requires some time and effort, but personally I think it's well worth it: getting to play god in your very own world isn't something you get to do in the real life.
The owls are not what they seem
I just saw someone ask this: Why doesn't someone like Dell or Compaq, with their billions of dollars, hire some designers to come in and create some nice looking systems?
This is exactly where we Mac users get to sit back and laugh and say "we told you so." We've taken a pummelling over the years because Macs weren't standard, weren't cutted-edge enough, couldn't lay claim to the buzzword-du-jour, but Apple has always done interface and design like nobody else.
Why don't Dell or Compaq create something "nice looking"? They do create "nice looking" but they don't create "nice using." Unlike Apple, their users just don't (apparently) demand that. Design isn't just how something looks, but how something works and how something fits into the workflow of whatever you're doing. The look is the least of it.
But Compaq and Dell and other box makers will continue to try to do "nice looking" because they don't get the whole human user interface concept the way Apple does. They don't get design on the multiple levels that Apple and most of its users do. It's something that we long-time Mac users have argued ad nauseam about in countless discussion forums (and will no doubt continue to do so) for ages and have been written off as pathetic Apple apologists.
--Rick
--Rick "If it isn't broken, take it apart and find out why."
It looks more like a sun ray than an imac.
--Have a Johsonville brat.
Just because Gateway designed an all-in-one LCD computer doesn't mean it's a ripoff. Now if the Profile looked exactly like a iMac? Sure.
The 20th Anniversary Macintosh also resembles the Compaq Concerto. The Concerto not only had a smaller footprint while providing the same functionality, but also could be used as a laptop and as a pen computer.
While the Concerto is really old now and was too heavy as a pen computer, as a laptop and as a desktop machine, it was an elegant, unpretentious, and practical. I would find an iMac with that form factor much more appealing than what Apple actually came up with.
(i386) All-in-one systems aren't new. Doesn't anyone remember the Monorail? It was an all-in-one Pentium computer. An old girlfriend of mine had one in college a few years ago.
You can see one here:
http://www.armory.com/~vern/toys/Monorail.htm
some LCD VAIOs I saw in CompUSA a few years back. Very nice sleek case design, with the CPU and such built into the back of the display, kinda like this Gateway unit, only cooler. :)
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Actually the Gateway profile XL came out in 1999 with a 15 inch LCD, so i don't think its accurate to say that they knocked off apple since its a continuation of an existing product line
looks like ass. And not a nice sexy supermodel mind you. I mean the kind you're likely to find on a ditchdigger.
Apple might have help the public image, but this idea isn't new at all - IBM Netvista X series, Gateway, etc. Gateway's isn't a copy of the new imac, NOR is it a copy of the old imac.. at least not anymore than the old imac is of an old Kaypro.
The numbers say it all...
APPLE COMPUTER INC ~AAPL~ 24.66
GATEWAY INC ~GTW~ 6.07
Seriously, is it just me or is Slashdot turning into a big Apple advertisement? Every Mac article rants and raves about how great it is to be a Mac user, and hahaha look at those stupid fuckers on x86. The scary part of this all is that any post that has a counterpoint on Mac immediately gets modded down. It's almost like what the trolls say happens during linux discussions (though I have seen way many more good criticisms and backhanded compliments of linux get modded up rather than down).
Take this discussion for example. It's been pointed out several times that the Gateway Profile has been out for years now (as opposed to the new iMac). Do these posts get +5 informative? No. Does some post telling everyone how great it is to own a new iMac because you can adjust its monitor with a magical pole get modded to +5 insightful? Yes. I think Apple is a good company, but some of the moderators need to pull their heads out of their asses and start modding up comments which are not necessarily criticisms, but simply pointing out the fallacies of the article.
Mod me troll or flamebait. I feel better now anyway.
Maybe you weren't paying attention when you read the article. Gateway has been making these things for ages so you can hardly call their Profile line an "imposter". There's nothing new about either system.
Such PC's (as others have noted) have existed for years. IBM, Tiger, Monorail and even Gateway them selves had a PC like this over 2 years ago. What the h e double hockey sticks is this doing on Slashdot!?!?
Actually guys, picture shows Profile 3, which is on market for almost past 2 years (?!), so they had it quite some time before Apple did...
Also, there are bunch of smaller European manufacturers that had all in one lcd design - since people are willing to spend a bit more money there for computers than in USA.
So while Imac is pretty (??), it definetly was not anywhere close to being first integrated lcd system... sorry mac fans
My RA had one my freshman year, so I think it could be said Apple is taking cues from PC design. The iMac of course looks better, but that's very low on the reasons to buy a computer. To each his own... but Gateway stole nothing from Apple on this one.
When I read an article about the Imac's design I believe they attempted an all the stuff behind the LCD design. The problem according to the engineers were that hardware sitting on end like what appears gateway has done causes HD and other failures more quickly. Oh well!
I swear if I see Timothy or Cmdr Taco write "a step in the right direction" I am going to poke my eyes out with my cuecat reader.
We'll start with the fact that Windows XP doesn't run all of that software perfectly. No Microsoft operating system has maintained perfect backwards compatibility, and there are many programs which have fallen through the cracks.
:). Other than that, I use it for Web browsing, work, music, etc. Even Windows XP can't compare with the amount of RPGs available for consoles (Square, Capcom, and Working Designs, mostly). I'd rather have a modern *nix workstation (either OS X or Debian) for my largely non-gaming tasks, and buy the right tool for the job WRT games.
:) .
Also, I don't understand this obsession with "more applications". How many applications do you use on your computer? Do I care that there are more applications available for Windows XP than there are for Debian or Mac OS X? No, because most of those applications are useless, or duplicates.
freshmeat.net lists over 18,000 applications. I work there, and even I'm not crazy enough to say that they're all important. I'm certainly not going to use more than a tiny percentage of them myself, and again, there are plenty of duplicates (different things for different people, but how many different Web server programs do you have running?)
If you've got that all important Windows application, Connectix will happily sell you VirtualPC to run that app on MacOS. But chances are you can find a replacement, either in X11, OS 9, or OS X software.
Another poster mentioned the fact that the majority of PC software available is games. I own a Playstation 2 and a Dreamcast. My (Debian) computer is for old console emulators and xScorch.
As for what OS X has that XP doesn't: there's a reason that print publications still use Macs for DTP, and it's called ColorSync. I know, because I also work for a print publication
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Oh, yeah, you can't.
Except the radiation emissions mutate your cat into a frog...
This is an article about the Profile 3 - as in 3rd Generation Profile - if anything, the iMac is a clone of the Profile.
The Profile II and III were both LCD screen based. I also got to see several of the in between design versions, as my cousin worked on the design team.
Who is general failure, and why is he reading my hard drive?
While the available LCD screen wasn't bolted on it was probably the earliest transportable with an LCD screen, that could be used as an all-in-one.
bwahahaha! Anyone comparing the imac 2 to
one of those x86 macines needs a new pair of glasses!! There's no comparison.
This product clearly misses the boat. Apple understands that computers can look good, though I do think they spend too much money on that. Simpler designs are just as effective. This is a design which I like better than apple's offering, but what I really want is a completely rectangular system - No odd-shaped projections on the sides, no monitor sticking out of a gumdrop. There should be some kind of stand you can put it on, or you should be able to hang it on the wall - What an amazing concept. It should use a desktop hard drive, but a laptop CDROM, to minimize depth.
The problem with these computers is that they are too much like computers and not enough like an appliance, even the imac. I want something I can just hang on my wall like a picture, but treat like a computer.
But let's face it, people who buy these all-in-one computers don't need too much upgradability. They will most likely never upgrade anything but the memory. So build me something like a laptop without an internal keyboard. Make it legacy-free, since I don't need to expand it. Give me a 2xType II/1xType III PCMCIA slot, a standard laptop CDROM slot, USB, and IEEE1394. Leave off the speakers; If you want, provide some sort of attachments for them on the sides. I don't mind. But I'm not going to want to use your crappy speakers anyway.
This should run any OS that the market segment for a machine like that will want to run on x86 - linux, windows ME (yecch), windows XP.
802.11 would be a nice feature as well. Twisted-Pair Ethernet, however, is mandatory - Come on, this is the age of broadband internet. There is no excuse for any prebuilt PC (or laptop) to not have ethernet.
These relatively unexpandable computers will never gain widespread popularity until they have very large screens for much lower costs, however. Or they come down significantly in price. And I would like to see a fairly large (18"?) HDTV-aspect display model.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
From what I've read, you can't (without going at your expensive new monitor with a hacksaw) rotate these monitors into portrait orientation. That seems a terrible shame. A lot of the time you want landscape, but on those occasions you want portrait (DTP, playing "1942" in MAME, etc.) it would be a terribly nice thing to be able to do.
mod this up
Jobs actually talked about that. He said the main reason they didn't have wireless keyboards was because they didn't have a good way of powering them yet.
Uh, now I find that rather odd. My wife has a Logitech cordless mouse on her iMac 333, running Mac OS 9.1. Whenever the batteries start to fade, the OS displays a new-style "floating palette" error message that the batteries are too low and should be replaced. What part of this is unintuitive? Or how hard would it be to put Das Blinkenlights on the front of said iMac to show when a keyboard/mouse link can't be established, or possibly combine that with the current warnings? Think about it: with the current crop of wireless IO goodies like mice and keyboards -- there's usually a USB dongle-like transmitter/receiver that's always powered. What I find hard to believe is that if these dongles were shoved into the mainboard design, why can't they keep the same warning messages? And if so, let's revisit the first question: what is unintiutive about a well-written warning message that your keyboard/mouse needs new batteries? Why not use rechargable batteries, and then recharge through a retractable USB cable built into either the keyboard or the machine itself?
Even superheroes once were losers
...that gateway PC looks nothing like the new iMac.
there have been 'bulit into back of LCD monitor'
PCs for a long time now....i saw an HP one
about 2 years ago in a local retail store
(green/blue hus colouring).
anyway, if nyone does make a 'anglepoise lamp'
clone then expect Apple to hit them with a suit
liek they did with the orginal iMac clone makers
That Gateway looks like a pile of garbage compared to the IMac. I'm not a Mac user or fan but that is just my two cents.
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It's not just for the cats, though. (I don't have any) I sometimes turn on and muck around with my Athlon box when the room gets too cold.
http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/
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