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Hip-e All-In-One PC
stallard writes "Yahoo! News reports this story:
'In November, Digital Lifestyles Group Inc. plans to ship the
hip-e, a new Windows-based PC inspired by the iMac, specifically designed to cater to teenagers. It was Chairman and CEO Kent Savage's own experience after his son asked him for an iMac that led to the new all-in-one system's creation.'"
hip-e? Didn't that whole thing fizzle out years ago? It's not like we're still in Vietnam.
"It was Chairman and CEO Kent Savage's own experience after his son asked him for an iMac that led to the new all-in-one system's creation.'"
Kind of like the dad who goes out to the workshop and whips something up, instead of going to the toy store.
As a typical teenager, this is perfect for my X-treme, hip, on-the-go lifestyle! I can use it to listen to my rock-n-roll music which I have stored as "MP3s", or I can use it to send electronic messages to my friends when I'm hanging out at the malt shop!
Any teenager who doesn't have one of these is a total square, if you ask me.
Hip-e
It's spelled "Hype" actually...
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
An insightful first post, from someone who actually read the article.
If anybody wants me, I'll be outside watching fire rain from the sky and the seas turn to blood...
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This baby is the cat's pajamas! It's about time someone in tune with the youth groove caught on and built a bicthin' system like this.
I can hardly wait for the Hip-E Univeral Music Store - HUMS.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Sounds like a gip-e.
They aren't any cheaper anyway!
"Here son, you'll love the new Nikee Aerial Jordanians! Look, they even have little mermaids on the heels. And only$200 a shoe! They must be good."
"You start high-school tomorrow, I just know they'll be perfect for your first day there".
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
With the wireless keyboard and Internet hot keys, you can go to your favorite places on the Web from anywhere in your room.
Whoa! Internet hotkeys! Sign me up!
Are there any better pictures? This thing looks fairly rickety and cumbersome to set up or move around. It's not exactly elegant looking.
There's more to the offer!
Buy your hip-e now and you get to join their hip-e squad! as a squad leader!! If your friends join your hip-e squad and buy a hip-e of their own, you get $10!!!!
Of course, all of the money goes into a convenient MasterCard that you get from hip-e, just in time to teach those teens the value of living your life with a credit card bill!!
Become a squad leader! All your base are belong to hip-e squad leaders!
-=*(CC)*=-
They should have called that thing the FUGL-E because it is fuckin' ugly!
I keep thinking of analogies to what this hip-e computer represents. First thing I thought of is the girl who wants a pair Calvin Klein jeans so her parents take her to Old Navy. Or the boy who really wants a 1969 Mustang so his dad buys him a 1969 Nova. Or the kid who wants Yu-Gi-Oh stuff so his parents buy him Pokemon stuff.
Seriously, what does this computer do, transform into a bug or something? Why does it look like that? It looks like it should be hanging down into the crib of a deranged infant. Or something.
"It's everything you want in a computer..." Huh. Yeah.
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that pretty cool. I like the way it looks.
2 things:
1) I hope it's successfull
2) when it fails, I can't wait to get one surplus!
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i can make a MUCH better computer for that price.
Sure, but it won't have anywhere near as big a profit margin!
Ah, but can you make it look X-TREME and/or TOTALLY HIP?
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Ben, 16
(Ben obviously hasn't gotten laid yet).
"hip-e is the fastest, most customizable computer on the market.It's perfect for me because I can make it fit my style."
Sean, 16
(Sean obviously hasn't checked out the specs of his perfect machine.)
Perhaps it's also a "squad alert"!
Uh, Oh! Buddys Buddy in trouble! Let's Roll!
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Second: Am I the only one who read the article as
Because "crater" is exactly what it's going to do in the market at this price. For $1700, you could buy a 1.8-GHz iMac -- unquestionably faster, even without considering the benefits of the G5 CPU -- and have $200 in change left over to spend on goodies.
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NOOOO MAN! don't you get it f00? It's on the wall! It looks COOLER and more HIP-EEEEEEEr.
If I was 17 (sigh...) I would certainly not want be caught dead with this thing in my room.
I showed this to my 2 grandkids: ages 9&10 (and yes those are their real names...)
"You aren't going to get us that for Christmas are you?" they said.
Me: "why not"
Them: (eyes roll as they leave the room)
10:"it is so Gay!"
9:"Duh!"
10: "Don't agree with me, I'm gonna kick your ass!"
9: "no I'm gonna kick YOURS!"
(much fakey Kung Fu ensues...)
Well, I guess they aren't really the target audience anyways., sorry, Off-topic
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Is this the computer equivalent of a Rube Goldberg device?
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WHAT!?!? This computer does not come with AOL! How can you get Internet without AOL?! I am not going to buy one because it is not compatible with Internet.
I was a squad leader in marching band, and no one ever paid me $10.
:-(
WTF?
I missed out
Spoon not. Fork, or fork not. There is no spoon.
No matter how great your product idea is, never, ever, give it a name that rhymes with "clippy".
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
I can picture my 50 year old hippie step father thinking this is pretty cool.
Where in the world did he get the name "Hip-e". I can just see the business meeting on this: Suit.A - "Well, it's supposed to be for young people." Suit.B - "I heard my son use the word 'hip', but I don't think it was an anatomical reference." Suit.A - "Brilliant, integrating slang into a product targeted to a teen audience increases sales tenfold! Or was that giving out free t-shirts?" Suit.B - "We still need to make it more comparable to an iMac though..." Suit.A - "Well, I guess we can throw a random vowel in front, they already took 'i'." Suit.B - "No, in the spirit of being 'hip', we'll put our random vowel in the END! Crazy, no?." Suit.A - "Completely, so, we have Hip-_." Suit.B - "Well, 'e' is right before 'i', and it begins electronic..." Suit.A - "Hip-e, excellent, and kids these days just love hippies, which increases sales tenfold!" Suit.B - "My brain just turned into a turkey! That increases sales tenfold!"
Networking, only one letter from NOT working...
And one can clearly conclude from the diagram that anyone who would buy/use a Hip-e has no more than 2 friends.
I just spent $1,400.00 on a 1.6 GHz G5 iMac with 512Mb RAM and bluetooth keyboard and mouse running a robust BSD-based Unix operating system for my son when I could have spent $1700 on a 1.5 GHz WinTel Box?!?
Think of all the "Life Lessons" my son will miss out on with his Mac. He won't be exposed to all those viruses, and spy-ware programs - how will he ever learn to properly secure his computer system in the "real World"?
He won't have the experience of paying annual subscription fees to Virus vendors to keep his virus software up to date. He won't be hit with pornographic pop-ups left and right, so how will he be prepared when he sits down at a friends computer or a computer at work and surfs on their Windows Box?
He won't have the experience of re-installing his OS every time he needs to really clean the spy-ware and mal-ware off his box.
He won't know how to search for and install drivers for all his peripherals. Not to mention knowing how to go through the troubleshooting process of determining which software package just overwrote that all-important .dll or how to edit a registry.
He'll might learn the bash shell and vi and ssh and scp and how to tweak apache config file to do what he wants instead of learning DOS commands and how to use TweakUI.
His computer will never be able to be used on a "Windows" network or on the internet because "Macs aren't networkable" (according to the "geek" at our local computer store)
If only I'd have known about this Hip-e sooner. Well, maybe one of his friends will have pity on him and let him use theirs when he visits - anyone want a G5 iMac cheap?
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As much as the average 16 year old wants to "score," computers will not get you laid. Just ask the average slashdotter!
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So by "latest Intel processor" they mean "the slowest Pentium-M that's still in production"
The market's flooded with people building "hip" PCs in their garages. I wish this guy luck, but I don't expect they'll be around in a year without a MAJOR response or some good ol' 90s-style VC.
They can call their Windows Media player the "wmp-e."
Yep...just like when I was little, I asked for Transformers, and got GoBots. Some things, a kid never forgets.
It looks like somthing Homer would cobble together.
My patience is infinite, my time is not.
it is not compatible with Internet.
Which of the Internets do you mean?
He should go work for Infinium and show them a thing about having a real product. Albeit one that sucks.
So his kid wants an iMac, he decides to build an overpriced piece of crap, sell it, and then use the profits to buy his kid an iMac!