Most blatant Apple website ripoff yet?

[briareos]

Check out their revolutionary 17" laptop.

http://www.go-l.com/home/


Maybe it's a tribute, not a ripoff.

No, it's a ripoff.

[MacUsers]

is this a real company?

It seems so fake... at-least they haven't figured out the real Apple font

[jwri004]

Like the Seinfeld episode, its a bizarro-Apple site!

[Mr Beardsley]

Its a fake. They say you can get a 4 GHz P4 by October 2003. That's not real.

[GreggWSmith]

I just ordered a laptop and desk top from them. I am selling my 12 inch Powerbook and my G5.

[briareos]

About the typeface- I could be mistaken, but it sure looks like Lucida Grande. Y'know, the system font for OS X. And yeah, they're a for-real company.

[GreggWSmith]

By the way my previous post was as fake as that site seemed. No PC manufacturer makes such nice machnes.

[Ebby]

SCHWEET JEEBUS! (http://www.go-l.com/desktops/machl38/features/index.htm) :wow: I bet you could ovetclock that thing pretty good. I still want (and have "shipping soon") a G5. But in PC terms that is pretty cool.

http://www.go-l.com/_images/grand_canyon_266x85.jpg
*DROOL* *DROOL*:p

[Amorph]

Check out the graphics here:

http://www.go-l.com/technology/index.html

http://www.go-l.com/_images/italkt.jpg http://www.go-l.com/_images/teamchatt.jpg

They state on the same page that:

Since creativity and innovation are associated with open-minds and breaking from the "traditional", at we believe real productiveness comes from learning attentively with others' feats, not from looking at their mistakes. And since we trust in doers more than in talkers, we've built an unique group of team players from every imaginable business field to get inspired by their individual talent, commonly obsession with making the computer products.

Are they gunning for Apple? Oh, yeah. They never say it, but they steal the Finder logo outright - twice! And they've replaced the crack-smoking speed freak who writes Apple's copy with a crack-smoking speed freak who has a tenuous grasp of the English language.

They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. :) These look like perfectly capable PCs (and the claimed 2,800 performance enhancements to Windows XP might mean that you actually notice the speed of the P4s they ship), and it's nice to see Apple acknowledged this baldly as a trendsetter.

[BuonRotto]

Consider it a homage, not a rip-off. :) It's not like there aren't a million others out there who've already done it. Besides, the main header looks more like XP's title bar than a Mac. :p

[Ebby]

:lol:
While just trying to be different, and hopefully original...

[g3pro]

hahaha. they really tried to get apple's website on this one. too bad apple can't do anything about it.

[ryaxnb]

Look at some more of it...
"Miracously engineered" - Means: We stuffed a desktop in a laptop.
"1.7in" thick" - Means: Way too thick
"Choose a model, News Ticker" - Copied from Apple
"3.20Ghz P4" - Has to be desktop model, there goes batt. life and portability
"Choice of optical drive" - Means: You can even choose the CD-ROM model no one wants
"Free-flow cooling technology" - Means: a fancy name for nothing
"120W Power supply" - Means: A ton. My iBook is at under 75 iBelieve.
"Weight: 7.9lbs" - Means: Ooof!

[Akumulator]

hoax

[MacUsers]

hahahaha you dont know the font now!!!

[Dog Almighty]

Someone order something from them, so we'll know more about it.

[Placebo]

....and they even copied the ticker!? BULLSHIT! :mad:

[Placebo]

That hardware looks phony. 8X DVD burner? 3.8 GHz 128-bit Intel CPU? Why haven't we heard of this before? Sounds a little wierd to me...this little startup company surely couldn't posess the fastest machine you can buy...

[Dog Almighty]

Originally posted by Placebo
That hardware looks phony. 8X DVD burner? 3.8 GHz 128-bit Intel CPU? Why haven't we heard of this before? Sounds a little wierd to me...this little startup company surely couldn't posess the fastest machine you can buy...

Maybe not, but they do possess the most expensive:

Power Mac G5: $1999-$2999USD (pre-configured models)
MachL 3.8GHz: $3999-$7799USD (also pre-configured)

[pscates]

Wow, that is truly, truly horrific in every way possible. :wow:

[Eugene]

Originally posted by Placebo
That hardware looks phony. 8X DVD burner? 3.8 GHz 128-bit Intel CPU? Why haven't we heard of this before? Sounds a little wierd to me...this little startup company surely couldn't posess the fastest machine you can buy...

Plextor has an 8x DVD±RW drive. PX-708A (http://www.plextor.com/english/products/708A.html)

3.8 GHz is supposed to be achieved via an FSB overclock from 200 MHz to ~238 MHz.

128-bit most likely refers to Intel SSE2.

This is all doable. My Windows PC is OC'd from 2.4 GHz to 2.9 GHz with nothing but a Swiftech heatsink and a very low volume fan. I'm sure I could push it well into the 3 GHz range with one of those new monster Thermalright heatsinks + a 92 mm high volume fan.

[CosmoNut]

That site goes far enough for Apple to have a case of copyright infringement.

[Wrong Robot]

remember the Xtrem-mac? the 1.2 ghz g4 mac that was announced around the time when the 500 mhz. g4s finally started shipping in bulk(after being downgraded to 450 for a while)

:D

I'm reminded of that.

[rageous]

The site is down...

[gee-five]

The site just disappeared before my eyes - I was surfing around trying to decide if it was serious when - poof:

"HTTP 404 - File not found
Internet Information Service"

Very interesting...

[rageous]

same thing happened to me. good riddance.

[Wrong Robot]

Alright...who here works for that company :p

[jwri004]

And I was just beginning to sort out my finances....

[Ensign Pulver]

Well I just called their toll-free store number and got a plain old answering machine instructing me to call back during "regular business hours". 9-6 M-F, 10-3 Sat, PST.

So their order department closes every day at 3PM Eastern?! :wow:

The answering machine then let me leave an actual message "at the sound of the tone"!

Fake? Joke? Scam? Incredibly poorly executed launch? Anyone with any real experience with this "company"?



P.S. Their "vast crew of young talented creative people" apparently does not include a copyeditor as their site is absolutely riddled with spelling and grammatical errors.

[jwri004]

IT'S BACK!!!!!

[MacUsers]

Someone report it to apple copyrights@apple.com i think is the address... lets get Apple some money

[CosmoNut]

What the heck is THIS CRAP?!?! (http://www.go-l.com/logo/index.htm) Ooooh, you can sculpt a rock into your silly little logo and stick it to my computer. I'm impressed. :rolleyes:
All of this adds to the excitement and surprise every time you take your new computer out of the box, because you will not know what it will look like, till then. Only that it will be as unique as you are. No matter how many computers we make, yours will look like no other© :err:

Riiiight.

[Not Unlike Myself]

Smells like another good day for AAPL Legal. :) I just emailed them...

[rageous]

It's definitely a rip. On the same technology page linked to earlier (here (http://www.go-l.com/technology/index.html)) all the icons are rips from popular OS X icon sets. Hell, you can even see the RAD E8 (http://www.rad-e8.com/main.html) on the last one:

http://www.go-l.com/_images/facelotiont.jpg

[Amorya]

From the legal agreement on that site:

The Mac OS 9, Mac OS X, Jaguar, Panther and the Apple logo are registered trademarks of Apple Computer Inc., its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries. The PowerPC is a registered trademark of IBM Inc., its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries.

lol!

Amorya

[murbot]

While just trying to be different, and hopefully original, we unwillingly re-wrote the book on corporate imaging and product branding.

Um, yeah.

:)

[MCQ]

Originally posted by MacUsers
Someone report it to apple copyrights@apple.com i think is the address... lets get Apple some money

They already have something like 4 billion in cash reserves :)

[Mount_my_floppy]

hahah I love this line:
Serious easy of use right out-of-the-box.


heh

[Mount_my_floppy]

Oh wait even better:

http://www.go-l.com/_images/people_group_04.jpg

From this page:
http://www.go-l.com/technology/gm/index.html

and

http://www.go-l.com/_images/people_group_13.jpg

That sure looks like a Mac under that desk..

from this page:
http://www.go-l.com/technology/nr/index.html

[Matt Danger]

Yeah on on the contact page, what's that I see? Is it, my it looks like Classic...

http://www.go-l.com/support/contactus/main_pic.jpg

http://www.go-l.com/support/contactus/index.htm

[murbot]

Uh oh, thin redhead with orange stuff on the walls... Mac user... pscates is going to be flipping out.

:D

[pscates]

Ha! Am I THAT transparent and easy-to-peg? Sigh...

Actually, I kinda dig the one on the right:

http://www.go-l.com/_images/people_group_04.jpg

Meow...

[rageous]

The screen resolutions on those display sucks goat nuts.

Holy ripped ripoff Batman!!!!

[Wrong Robot]

Originally posted by Ensign Pulver



P.S. Their "vast crew of young talented creative people" apparently does not include a copyeditor as their site is absolutely riddled with spelling and grammatical errors.

And funky links, I thought my computer was playing along with the joke when it went to desktops after clicking on laptops, or when it wouldn't let me go to the store page unless I first went to laptops which I couldn't get to unless I went to hte support page...etc.

what a wonky site.

[CosmoNut]

I'm still not totally convinced that it's a legitimate site.

Is it? Really?

Say it ain't so. :???: :\

[Wrong Robot]

hmm...they have a notice to mac-users about the linking errors...I'm convinced someone here is in on this site now :p

[Mount_my_floppy]

Well, They could have noticed their only visitors to the site are from AI ;)

[MacUsers]

:lol:

ya, now they know the real Apple font to because I had it posted in this thread before... crap, im taking it off

[MacUsers]

they took off the This Site may not work properly on Mac and Safari Web Browser and IE Mac crap... I sent an email to the Apple copyright infringement center telling them about it... they replied saying thanks, hehehe

[jwri004]

I showed this site to someone I know, and he replied we have one in the office!!!

Not that brand exactly, but under a different name. It was dirt cheap, and has a built in webcam built into the screen.

Supposedly the producer is quite large, so as far as them being innovative as far as design that might not be the case. All they have done is put a logo on it!

[MacUsers]

Hey. remember about how they had all those spelling mistakes and we talked about them here... well look what they added at the bottom of almost every page


"Not responsible for typographical errors and omissions."



:lol:

[CosmoNut]

Originally posted by MacUsers
"Not responsible for typographical errors and omissions."

Not responsible?! It's their own damn web site!

And they had to have spelled the stuff wrong themselves, because anything they stole from Apple's site would have been spelled correctly.

What a bunch of dumbasses. :rolleyes:

[Artman @_@]

In their "About" butt-ugly Flash presentation go to "D.N.A."...

It states that of over a 100 developers working in the company 20% are "Apple/Mac developers"...???

Their boss seems to have been in the Movie/TV business and was frustrated with the lack of performance of most computer systems of that time... Apple hater/snubber? You decide. :smokey:

[Northgate]

Plus I've seen this "template" before. They didn't even bother to create their own buttons and product boxes because they took it off a premade template! So, they're ripping off Apple and also too lazy to create their own buttons and graphics. Jeesh!

[Chagi]

Originally posted by Northgate
Plus I've seen this "template" before. They didn't even bother to create their own buttons and product boxes because they took it off a premade template! So, they're ripping off Apple and also too lazy to create their own buttons and graphics. Jeesh!

For the record, at least some of their hardware design is outsourced. A company by the name of Clevo is the ODM (Original Design Manufacturer) of their laptops, which are then rebranded by companies like http://Eurocom.com.

It's probably also worth mentioning that their flagship 17" monster would be lucky to get even close to 2 hours of battery life, particularly judging by the specs:

- Non-mobile CPU design (it's a desktop variant of the P4, not the Pentium-M chip that is part of the Centrino branding)

- Very fast system bus (by mobile standards)

- 7200 rpm hard drive in a laptop? *chuckles*

- 433 MHz DDR - errr, did a new standard come along when I wasn't looking? AMD is going to have enough problems relating to the requirement of registered 400 MHz DDR for their new AMD Athlon 64 FX chips...

All of the above criticism relating to battery power notwithstanding, it's a rather nice looking choice if you want to have a portable high-end gaming PC for LAN parties, etc. Rather amusing listening to them patting their backs for something they didn't even design though.

http://www.go-l.com/laptops/hollywood/features/index.htm =

http://www.anandtech.com/IT/showdoc.html?i=1880



http://images.anandtech.com/reviews/shows/2003/computex/Day1/m10_1_big.jpg

http://www.go-l.com/laptops/hollywood/features/main_hollywood_left.jpg

[Chagi]

P.S. This is my favorite marketing pic on the site:

http://www.go-l.com/_images/winusegraph.gif

[Chagi]

Nice blatant rip-off here:

http://www.go-l.com/_images/teamchatb.jpg

[\/\/ickes]

http://www.go-l.com/support/contactus/main_pic.jpg

pscates may not want her... but i'd hit it.
She is cute.

[Placebo]

Originally posted by Chagi
P.S. This is my favorite marketing pic on the site:

http://www.go-l.com/_images/winusegraph.gif
Yeah..."the rest". Micosoft's going to be "the rest" when Linux gets control of the enterprise market.

[\/\/ickes]

Originally posted by Placebo
Yeah..."the rest". Micosoft's going to be "the rest" when Linux gets control of the enterprise market.

Naa... that won't happen untill the linux community hunts down Microsoft's workers for sport.

Open source is still week... I live for linux but I know it's faults.

[Placebo]

I have an idea...let's make a "Down with go-l.com!" thread, and post enough large images of their website that they run out of hosting space! :)

[\/\/ickes]

GREAT IDEA!!! lets do that!

[Defiant]

even better? tell /. (http://slashdot.org/) to do it.