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Today, images of Gateway's upcoming "One" computer emerged on the Internet. In its official press release Thursday, Gateway said it plans to ship the One series in late October with two retail models and a single online-only version. Pricing for the retail versions is said to begin at $1,300 for a model that includes a 1.5GHz Core 2 Duo, 2GB of memory, a 320GB hard drive, and Intel X3100 graphics. A high-end model, which is $1800 will boost the processor speed to 2GHz, memory to 3GB, hard disk space to 500GB, and add a Mobility Radeon HD 2600 dedicated video card. The online model, which is $1500 is in between the retail models with the same hardware as the retail models, but adds a 400GB hard drive and Radeon HD 2600 chipset. Like Apple's iMac, each One also has a 1.3-megapixel webcam on its exterior, Gateway said.

 

Comparatively, Apple's new Polished iMac starts at $1200 for a 20-inch model with a 2.0GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 1GB of memory, 250GB hard drive, and ATI Radeon HD 2400 XT with 128MB memory. For the same $1500 as Gateway's online One model, Apple also offers an iMac with a 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 320GB hard drive, and ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro with 256MB memory.

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Now, is it just me, or does that look like a combination between the 20th Anniversary Mac and the new Polished iMacs?

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Well, in my opnion the similarities are extremely rare. The structure of the pc is a concept. Such like the Mac Pro is build in a tower model and the mac books are build as notebooks or laptops (take your pick). I do not see why this concept would be 'apple's'.

Uh...It's slower, and MORE expensive than an iMac?COUNT ME IN!
Yeah! Both the recent Sony all-in-one, as well as this one are worse value than the Core 2 duo iMac. I wonder who buys them!I mean, for the price of this, you can have a 20" iMac with a better quality screen and higher rez...there's no comparison!
Uh...It's slower, and MORE expensive than an iMac?COUNT ME IN!
Yeah! Both the recent Sony all-in-one, as well as this one are worse value than the Core 2 duo iMac. I wonder who buys them!I mean, for the price of this, you can have a 20" iMac with a better quality screen and higher rez...there's no comparison!

Naturally everyone here is going to say they prefer the iMac, but I'm not so sure. I think the Gateway looks quite nice. Just a little chunky, but that doesn't bother me (of course, my computer weighs 70 pounds or so). The awesome comes from the power brick. Excellent idea. There are still ports for headphones and USB keys or whatever on the computer, but printers, ethernet, spdif sound etc are all attached to the power brick, hidden under the desk. In this particular area they have trumped Apple.

 

Now, I don't like widescreen, and the chin under the monitor (on the imac or the gateway). I wouldn't mind a more square monitor, and a slightly fatter form to get rid of the chin, but that's just me.

 

Now, the specs are a bit unfortunate. More RAM, but a slower processor. It does have a desktop hard drive though (win) that is user serviceable (win win).

 

I prefer completely user serviceable (why I build my own, in really large towers [compensating?]), but otherwise I'd take a good look at this machine. Can it run OSX86? :angel:

I don't like the power brick at all. Even though it has ports, I'd prefer none at all. And why is it so big? I'd much rather get an iMac, especially if this thing comes with vista and no option to get xp on there...

"It does have a desktop hard drive though (win) that is user serviceable (win win)."

 

Just a fast correction. The iMac DOES have a desktop hard drive, though it's not (easily) servicable. It also does have Firewire 800 (and FW 400)- something I'm SURE is not included in the Gateway.

 

There's really no comparison. Even if you want to run Windows (but why?), the iMac is cheaper, faster, more elegant, and more expandable. Looks like Gateway has another clunker on its hands. . .

I don't like the big chin and how it extends to the desk. (Didn't care for last generation iMac either, but its better)

 

I guess perspective is everything. On the Gateway site the majority of the comments are all how this is so much better than the iMac because it has space for a second HD, connector brick, looks better, blah blah blah.

and WHY do we care? this is a mac site not a GATEWAY site

failnews

 

Well... Many (most?) of us run OS X on a PC anyway, and I suppose this one could be OS X compatible.

 

As to the prices, let's see:

 

http://store.apple.com/Apple/WebObjects/ir...mp;mco=BC1BE678

 

(Apple Store Ireland)

 

Specifications

 

 

* 2GB 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM - 2x1GB

* 500GB Serial ATA Drive

* SuperDrive 8x (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)

* Apple USB Modem

* Apple Mighty Mouse

* Keyboard (English) + Mac OS X (English)

* 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo

* ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO with 256MB memory

* 20-inch glossy widescreen LCD

* AirPort Extreme

* Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR

 

Price: Eur 1,433.05

VAT: Eur 300.94

Subtotal: Eur 1,733.99

 

According to this site:

 

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/09/27/ga...y_one_launched/

 

The top-end Gateway One should cost €1315. I suppose they don't know for sure, neither they mention if that would include VAT, but even with VAT the final price should be considerably less than Eur 1,733.99.

 

Specs: the Gateway has a slower CPU but more RAM. You can't have an iMac with 3GB RAM, but if you wanted 4GB RAM the price would jump to a whopping Eur 2,414.00!!!

(Note that a 4GB RAM kit for an iMac 2.4GHz (20-inch) fom Crucial costs €269.06 inc. VAT).

There's no reason for anyone (imho) to buy this thing.

The iMac is cheaper, and has way beter design and support.

 

Nuff said.

 

Enough with the fanboy act :)

 

C'mon - this thing is slick - a user servicable all-in-one slab for Fedora?

 

Now, its specs are a little light for my tastes. I'd like double the RAM for starters, and at $1500 I don't think I'm asking alot - but whatever. I do like that I can upgrade the HD, as others have said. That is crucial. A slab is pointless if you have to strap USB disks to it.

 

You may never find one at my house, but I live off a laptop. My bench has too much tektronix gear - no room for another PC :)

Then again, I do like to spend money. Dead presidents smell funny -- I keep trying to get rid of them, but I keep getting more.

IMO the Gateway One doesn't look as bad as most people say it is. However, its specifications are slightly less than what I would want. The screen is also higher off the table than the iMac, with less screen space. I prefer something with a large widescreen than something that is tall with only a 19" screen. And considering the height of the screen off the table, one would expect it to be almost vertical - to meet the user's eye perpendicularly. However, it is slanted. For short people, this may even mean that the user would be outside of the visible angle of the One (although in the picture below, it seems to have a wide horizontal viewable angle... don't know about vertical)

 

Also, I wonder why in the pictures, the Gateway One doesn't have a power chord. So we can assume that this pic is fake.

gateway-one-070927-1.jpg

 

The keyboard is thicker than Apple's keyboard, yet with the similar shallow keys. If you want a thin keyboard, go all the way to thinness (like the iMac's keyboard). If you want a thick keyboard, go all the way to thickness (like old keyboards, or, even better, typewriters). Never have a keyboard that is thick with shallow keys.

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