Love at First Sight: The Gateway One
Tue Oct 30, 2007 8:03AM EDT
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I'm usually not swayed by a pretty face, but the Gateway All-in-One PC is
one of the handsomest machines I've ever seen. It's been sitting in my
dining room while I check it out, and it's become a major conversation
piece for anyone who enters.
In the past, Gateway hasn't exactly been synonymous with groundbreaking design, but that's been changing. (See my review of the new Gateway XHD3000 monitor.) The new Gateway One is a streamlined, sleek PC housed in a glossy black console that's only about 3.5 inches thick. The console houses most of your computer: A 19-inch widescreen LCD, the hard drive, invisible but rich-sounding speakers, a DVD drive, and even a TV tuner (optional) are all built right into the display.
The only loose parts are the keyboard, mouse, and remote—they are wireless, beautifully engineered, and quite responsive. The major benefit, besides getting oohs and ahhs from your friends, is how neat things get when you're not squirreling a chassis and wires below your desk.
The first thing you'll notice is how quick a setup can be. The shoebox-sized power brick has one single cord that attaches to your PC. That's it. One wire and you're off and running.
The other thing you'll notice immediately is how quiet the fan is. Then rev up some music. The sound emanates from within, but you see no speakers. Vibrating transducers are hidden behind the glossy back, producing 8-channel sound that's probably one of the weakest links in the performance, but still more than respectable.
On the inside, the Gateway One features a Core2 Duo processor and an on-board graphics processor (Intel) with an upgrade to the ATI graphics card for even better performance. A 500GB hard drive is upgradeable to 2TB, so it's unlikely you'll run out of storage any time soon. There'se 3GB of RAM memory, as well as connectivity available through Ethernet, 802.11n wireless, and Bluetooth 2. This PC also comes equipped with seven USB ports and a fast slot-loading DVD. It runs Windows Vista Home with a trial version of Microsoft Office 2007. The price, fully loaded, will run you about $1,800.
Apple, Sony, and HP all make all-in-one machines, but Gateway is far from a me-too with this design.
Ben Patterson took an early look at the Gateway One. I've been running it for about three weeks and the love keeps growing.
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647 Posted by cherylquiltnut@sbcglobal.net on Thu Sep 3, 2009 3:22PM EDT Report Abuse
Who Cares if its Green..What a crock this global warming is anyway!!!
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648 Posted by mwheelhaus on Thu Sep 3, 2009 7:31PM EDT Report Abuse
why buy windows maybe, good question? I like to be able to run a few programs sure they may cost but at least they work.
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649 Posted by aalz16 on Thu Sep 3, 2009 2:43PM EDT Report Abuse
noone needs to be comparing theirselves
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650 Posted by njscreenwriter on Thu Sep 3, 2009 7:39PM EDT Report Abuse
It's so funny to read all the back and forth comments about which is better MAC or PC? Some of the comments are hysterical! If you're posting on here you're a computer geek and to call other people geeks is redundant. I've had a DELL laptop and an iMAC G5 for about 3 years now (bought them 6 months apart) and both work just fine. It's all about preference and use. I use my MAC for all the video editing I do, music photo all that kinda stuff. If I need to run a business ap I use the Dell, and it's nice to have an inexpensive laptop. That said the MAC works better and faster much more consistently than the Dell. I don't give a hoot that there's no right click on the mouse. I don't care that I can't rebuild it to my own specs - I'm not a gamer and I like that I don't have to update spyware and virus protection every year. I've had my share of problems with the MAC but nothing like I would on a PC and nothing that has doomed the computer to a pile of scrap (like my last Toshiba laptop). It'll be a cold day in heck when Apple has a majority market share of personal computers. But now that you can run Windows and OS X on an Apple computer I see no reason to ever buy a PC machine ever again. I personally got tired of all the security issues and instability of Windows and from what I understand VISTA is continuing the MS tradition of releasing an OS that is riddled with problems. Most MAC users are people that got tired of buying a Microsoft product that has so many problem and are glad that there is finally an alternative.
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651 Posted by pharaoh_britney on Thu Sep 3, 2009 8:09PM EDT Report Abuse
The Gateway One looks awesome. I haven't gotten a chance to use one tho. Maybe i'll check it out next time i'm near best buy. btw mac fanboi's are turds. (not mac fans mind u. I mean fanbois, a.k.a. people who finish every sentance with the phrase "just buy a mac.")
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646 Posted by petepurdue1991 on Thu Sep 3, 2009 8:07PM EDT Report Abuse
You know what suprises me the most reading 90% of these comments? The iMac must not have spell check because MOST of the iMac fanboys responses have spelling or grammar errors in them. Also, I have had/used Gateway's, Apple's, Dell's, and IBM's, and of the 4, 3 of them had to have the original OS's put back on them due to corrupted files. (Yes, the Apple was one of them.) Therefore, it really doesn't matter WHAT OS you use, it's a matter of what you're most comfortable with. To everyone, think about it, MS/OSX is nothing more than a working copy of the other with the that founder's name backing it. (Most iMac users may not know that Mr. Gates helped start Apple many years ago) Everyone is entitled to their own opinion.