The Gateway Profile 4...what a joke...
Has anybody seen this commercial yet for the gateway profile 4?
Here the link for it-<a href="http://gateway.com/home/prod/hm_profile4xl_ProdDetail.shtml"; target="_blank">Ugly PC Link here</a>
If you have'nt seen this commercial, its total crap.
with statements like "you can do more, run 1000's of programs, and
other BS like that...and please that thing so ugly, what can you "DO More" of CRASH.
The Design department at gateway really needs to get a clue..this thing
looks horrible. My 5 year sister could have created a better design for
a compact computer.
Here the link for it-<a href="http://gateway.com/home/prod/hm_profile4xl_ProdDetail.shtml"; target="_blank">Ugly PC Link here</a>
If you have'nt seen this commercial, its total crap.
with statements like "you can do more, run 1000's of programs, and
other BS like that...and please that thing so ugly, what can you "DO More" of CRASH.
The Design department at gateway really needs to get a clue..this thing
looks horrible. My 5 year sister could have created a better design for
a compact computer.
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It does have a fairly recent P4 in it, though (2.5 Ghz?). It is paired with DDR RAM, however, so getting the full potential of that 2.5 Ghz chip is a bit dubious. ...the better to multitask more viruses while you do your work unencumbered, ehh?
[ 09-14-2002: Message edited by: Randycat99 ]</p>
Again, take a look at the 'Switch' campaign. It's cleverly worded where the basic computer moron would think that this is how all PCs are today. Any experienced PC user who runs WinXP on a relatively new PC knows that those people either don't know what they are doing, or have just really shitty luck. I laugh hysterically when I read things like 'awful little speakers', 'crashes constantly', 'isn't plug and play' and so on. It's mostly rubbish with today's PCs, but even if one (or thousands) of users had any of these issues (and we all know they did before XP) - Apple can use it and they'd be foolish not to. It's all relative to the user and situation and the comments are generalizations and blanketed. You can't say they are lying, but you know they are talking about situations that are not the norm for everyone.
That's advertising, it's all bullshit, but if it works - it's worth it. Think about if MS (with major PC companies backing them) started a campaign like Apple's and had people who 'Switched Back' on the screen. 'Takes forever for my Mac to startup', 'can't find any good games', 'how much did I have to pay, and it didn't come with a display?', 'Jaguar looks great, but I miss the ability to right click and do anything', 'my PC was just? faster', 'my mac was cool, but I couldn't get an affordable one with a good graphics card or a fast hard drive', 'I am glad the blue screens are now replaced with kernel panics', 'I can't use any of my USB 2.0 devices', and so on. Obnoxious, misleading and generalized comments, right? Well, that's what Apple is doing with the switch campaign and they are free to do so - but so is the competition. And, both sides will be screaming 'BULLSHIT!' and both will be right.
Patchouli, you have a good point. Don't dish it out if you can't take it. Apple certainly dished it out with the switch ads, so obviously other companies aren't going to sit on their hands and say "well, they got us, time to sell the business." The economy is doing poorly and especially so for the computer industry. Things are going to get dirty. With very few sales to be had at all, companies need everything they can get.
Apple looks to be in good shape; they turned a profit when everyone else (except Dell, of course) experienced losses. If Apple can maintain profits (albeit modest ones) during a slowdown like this, imagine how much better they'll do once the economy picks up! But they still need to keep the pressure on to do well. No company gets anywhere by not advertising.
This kind of advertising is a vicious circle.
What is needed, and I do think Apple realizes this, for they are trying, is 'The Killer App'.
In the early eighties, it was Lotus 1-2-3 (for IBM, I seem to be thinking).
Then, for Apple, it has always been Photoshop.
They have seriously tried with their DVD burning and authoring possibilities, and they are trying with the iPod and iTunes.
This is the stuff people care about. It could create the true shock, which hauls people over. The design of the iMacs, this gets to people (look at the amount of iMacs you see in television shows or movies, when a suggestions of 'stylish character' has to be established - a kind of advertising Apple should try to go further in).
Anyway, nothing that hasn't been said before, I guess (oh, and of course, we need several GHz to really think different in peace).
<strong>The TV ad is actually pretty funny, even though it's bashing the iMac.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Yeah it is. I love how it moves and stuff like it wants to be an iMac <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" />
Gambit, actually the door is on the left and it's for you to take it.
Can XP even sneeze at that much memory? I highly doubt it.
Typos...gotta love 'em!
Blueflame
<strong>Something rather shocking I noticed while looking at the Profile website: this sucker can take up to 1024 GB of RAM! :eek:
Can XP even sneeze at that much memory? I highly doubt it.
Typos...gotta love 'em!
Blueflame</strong><hr></blockquote>
I'm sure XP can handle a 1gb of ram.
Torifile: unfortunately, only a minority of the population grasp irony. Such is life.
<strong>I'm sure XP can handle a 1gb of ram.</strong><hr></blockquote> Umm, I don't think you read what he posted. Can Windows handle a TERABYTE of RAM?
<strong> Umm, I don't think you read what he posted. Can Windows handle a TERABYTE of RAM?</strong><hr></blockquote> MemoryÂ* \t\t128MB DDR SDRAM expandable to 1024MB
That is what is on the Gateway site.