Gateway mimics Apple with 'One'
And here it is, officially, the Gateway One.
Touting the slim, all-in-one desktop as the first move toward a new strategy focused on industrial design (is there any PC manufacturer that isn't doing that these days?), the once-mighty Gateway described the minimalistic machine as an ideal centerpiece for the digital home.
The announcement was made Thursday morning at a press breakfast at the DigitalLife consumer technology convention in New York.
It's a striking-looking machine: black with a glass front and brushed-aluminum back that evokes none other than Apple, the company that remains the leader in aesthetically inclined PCs. The One is intentionally decluttered, with a single cable connecting to a power brick, a wireless keyboard and touch-sensitive mouse (which executives called a "river rock mouse"), a detachable 1.3-megapixel Webcam that connects to a USB port atop the monitor, speakers integrated into the front panel, and a power button located on the back of the 19-inch LCD display.
As for specs, three models of the One are available: a $1,299 version with a 320GB hard drive and a 1.5GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor; a $1,499 version with a 400GB hard drive and the same 1.5GHz processor, along with a higher-end ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600 graphics card; and a $1,799 version with a 500GB hard drive, a 2GHz Core 2 Duo processor, the ATI graphics card, and an analog-digital TV tuner.
All three versions weigh slightly under 22 pounds and come with Windows Vista Home Premium. The upper and lower models of the Gateway One are sold through an exclusive retail partnership with Best Buy; the $1,499 version is sold directly through Gateway's Web site.
Rich Brown of CNET Reviews offers his hands-on take here.
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points as an iMac, which not only has faster processors and larger
screens, but which is thinner, has better video, and comes with Mac
OS X - so for the price of Gateway's mid-spec model, you can get a
base iMac that's faster _and_ a copy of Windows to run on it via
Boot Camp.
I don't think Gateway's customers are going to go for this one,
pretty or not (and that's debateable).
that is way too big.
But what you get for the money is far below what you get with an
iMac. It's not even close.
As for the power button on the back of the machine, are they serious? This is worse than the Ps2 power switch.
your creation by using Windows... ughhh
I see... All valid points....
ports than Mac, card-reader, lower-end configs at lower cost
Cons: SATA-II instead of SATA-III, no FW 800, no Bluetooth, no
external display support, smaller display with lower resolution,
non-adjustable display, large bevel, mouse only has 3 buttons
and 1-axis scroll, cost (not cheaper than Mac), Vista Home,
Gateway's reputation for quality
I like to see machines in this form-factor, though. I think it's the
ideal for all sorts of applications and very much changes how
and were you can setup and use your system. I'd also like to see
PC makers with very-small form-factor models (like a Mac mini).
Again, there's a form-factor that opens up lots of possibilities,
even if there's practical limits to the performance (which is ever
more frequently not as important).
See for example:
http://archives.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/11/27/toy.box.profile/index.html
This was Gateway's 3rd generation profile. The original used Pentium III.
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by ANEWMadrid
September 27, 2007 10:36 AM PDT
- looks nice too me.
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See all 21 Comments >>my daughters use a Gateway laptop and it has run pretty flawless.