As promised, here is the Gateway One unboxing video. I want to thank Glenn and Tawna from Gateway for helping us doing the unboxing.
The setup is as easy as plugging in the power cable to the system and you are good to go. No pairing needed for the wireless keyboard and mouse, it seems Gateway preset them to connect to the system.
We recently reported that Gateway is about to release All-in-One desktop, and today SlashGear’s own Vincent went to the press conference and get some more information and live shot (videos and pictures) of the Gateway One.
During the press conference, Gateway said “One” is available for pre-order and will ship in November this year, however they did not give specific date. As we reported yesterday, it will be available in three configurations, the starting base system will starts at $1299 and high-end configurations will start at $1799.
Video after the jump (Unboxing video)
Gateway today announced a sleek desktop PC called The One that looks equally (or more) attractive than the new iMac. I personally think the One is a long lost brother of the new iMac.
Gateway One design resembles characteristics of Apple iMac with its slot-loading side mounted DVD burners and the connectors such as three USB ports, one FireWire, and audio in/out. Wall mounting kit is also available to allow consumer to mount the system on the wall.
Acer has agreed to acquire the computer maker Gateway and to pay around $710 million in cash for the acquisition. Both Gateway’s and Acer’s board of directors have approved the acquisition and the transaction is expected to be closed by December 2007.
How long will it be until the desktop PC is, for mainstream customers at least, pronounced dead? It’s been several years since sales of laptops exceeded their table-bound brethren, and ever since the numbers have increased and the places you can find notebooks for sale have grown more and more unusual.
Gateway are one manufacturer who have partly stepped outside of the usual retail channels with their range. Their UK arm were good enough to send me an MT6839b – a model currently sold in this country’s leading supermarket retailer Tesco – but equivalents of which can be found in other channels too. With a MRSP of £599 ($1,220 at today’s awful exchange rate) it’s a good example of an entry-point machine for families and students.
Gateway releases two series of notebooks today. The M-series and T-series notebook features Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 802.11 a/b/g/n (draft) wireless, optional Bluetooth module and a 1.3 megapixel webcam.
I’ve never owned a tablet PC, but I’ve always thought that it would be cool to have one. I wish they would come out with a tablet that actually had a decent dedicated video card. But for those that don’t need all of the horsepower from their GPU, here’s a new tablet from Gateway that should have plenty of kick elsewhere.
If you have a four-year-old Gateway laptop, shut it down and back away. You remember those exploding Dell laptops? Turns out your Gateway has the potential to do the same thing.
Despite the fact that we in the UK won’t be seeing it until at least the Summer, I’m still gobbling up information on Gateway’s entry-level C-120X Tablet PC. With the news that Dell has finally announcedits move into the pen-computing market, it’s undoubtedly models like these that will capture the bulk of mainstream sales, with higher-priced and occasionally niche alternatives from Lenovo and Motion (amongst others) remaining too expensive for the casual user interested in Ink.
I can quite easily imagine my bank manager’s face if I went to him and said “I’m planning to work at a loss, if that’s okay, and build up a few million in debt” – in fact I can imagine the sound thrashing he’d give me – but things obviously work differently in games console land. We already knew that Microsoft had applied some still-leaky sutures to the gushing wound that is their Entertainment and Devices Division, bringing losses down to a mere $315m; now division president Robbie Bach has given an interview assuring us that through a complicated sum of Xbox Live revenue and game royalties the console will actually turn a profit next year.
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