http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/23/gateways-profile-6-desktop-offers-lots-of-expansion-not-so-muc/ Engadget Comments for Gateway's Profile 6 desktop offers lots of expansion, not so much sexy http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/23/gateways-profile-6-desktop-offers-lots-of-expansion-not-so-muc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/23/gateways-profile-6-desktop-offers-lots-of-expansion-not-so-muc/Mar 23rd 2006 5:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/23/gateways-profile-6-desktop-offers-lots-of-expansion-not-so-muc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/23/gateways-profile-6-desktop-offers-lots-of-expansion-not-so-muc/Mar 23rd 2006 5:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/23/gateways-profile-6-desktop-offers-lots-of-expansion-not-so-muc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/23/gateways-profile-6-desktop-offers-lots-of-expansion-not-so-muc/
And to repeat the above comment, for any computer that is marketed at being in a library, school, whatever where you dont want people reaching around, you need to have AT LEAST front mounted USB ports for people to plug their thumb drives into. I know everyone at my high school uses thumb drives over floppies now. Ideally, they should probably have USB 2.0, Firewire, and some flash card slots so that a wide range of external storage space can be accommodated.]]>Mar 23rd 2006 5:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/23/gateways-profile-6-desktop-offers-lots-of-expansion-not-so-muc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/23/gateways-profile-6-desktop-offers-lots-of-expansion-not-so-muc/Mar 23rd 2006 5:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/23/gateways-profile-6-desktop-offers-lots-of-expansion-not-so-muc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/23/gateways-profile-6-desktop-offers-lots-of-expansion-not-so-muc/Mar 23rd 2006 5:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/23/gateways-profile-6-desktop-offers-lots-of-expansion-not-so-muc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/23/gateways-profile-6-desktop-offers-lots-of-expansion-not-so-muc/hahahahahahahahaha!!!!
]]>Mar 23rd 2006 5:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/23/gateways-profile-6-desktop-offers-lots-of-expansion-not-so-muc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/23/gateways-profile-6-desktop-offers-lots-of-expansion-not-so-muc/Mar 23rd 2006 5:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/23/gateways-profile-6-desktop-offers-lots-of-expansion-not-so-muc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/23/gateways-profile-6-desktop-offers-lots-of-expansion-not-so-muc/Mar 23rd 2006 5:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/23/gateways-profile-6-desktop-offers-lots-of-expansion-not-so-muc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/23/gateways-profile-6-desktop-offers-lots-of-expansion-not-so-muc/Mar 23rd 2006 5:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/23/gateways-profile-6-desktop-offers-lots-of-expansion-not-so-muc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/23/gateways-profile-6-desktop-offers-lots-of-expansion-not-so-muc/And as for featues, sure you can expand it, till your freinds find out and then you'll hate yourself for spending the money]]>Mar 23rd 2006 5:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/23/gateways-profile-6-desktop-offers-lots-of-expansion-not-so-muc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/23/gateways-profile-6-desktop-offers-lots-of-expansion-not-so-muc/Mar 23rd 2006 6:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/23/gateways-profile-6-desktop-offers-lots-of-expansion-not-so-muc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/23/gateways-profile-6-desktop-offers-lots-of-expansion-not-so-muc/Mar 23rd 2006 6:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/23/gateways-profile-6-desktop-offers-lots-of-expansion-not-so-muc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/23/gateways-profile-6-desktop-offers-lots-of-expansion-not-so-muc/Mar 23rd 2006 6:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/23/gateways-profile-6-desktop-offers-lots-of-expansion-not-so-muc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/23/gateways-profile-6-desktop-offers-lots-of-expansion-not-so-muc/
Gateway is going down the tubes!]]>Mar 23rd 2006 6:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/23/gateways-profile-6-desktop-offers-lots-of-expansion-not-so-muc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/23/gateways-profile-6-desktop-offers-lots-of-expansion-not-so-muc/Mar 23rd 2006 6:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/23/gateways-profile-6-desktop-offers-lots-of-expansion-not-so-muc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/23/gateways-profile-6-desktop-offers-lots-of-expansion-not-so-muc/

...for me to poop on.]]>Mar 23rd 2006 6:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/23/gateways-profile-6-desktop-offers-lots-of-expansion-not-so-muc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/23/gateways-profile-6-desktop-offers-lots-of-expansion-not-so-muc/
As others have said, this has a floppy disk when other manufacturers stopped including them years ago. It looks dated, uninspiring and out of touch with the tastes and design of the 21st century. It's a screen sitting on a small form factor pc - hardly an "all-in-one".

I don't see Sony worrying about this one somehow...]]>Mar 23rd 2006 6:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/23/gateways-profile-6-desktop-offers-lots-of-expansion-not-so-muc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/23/gateways-profile-6-desktop-offers-lots-of-expansion-not-so-muc/
Simple, no?

--neg]]>Mar 23rd 2006 6:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/23/gateways-profile-6-desktop-offers-lots-of-expansion-not-so-muc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/23/gateways-profile-6-desktop-offers-lots-of-expansion-not-so-muc/
When you're a computer manufacturer in an industry that moves on quicker technology-wise than most other industries, do you really want to be making hardware that looks more suited to the previous decade and has technology from that time aswell?

This product screams "we haven't moved on", "we're behind with the times". They may as well have stuck a 5 1/4" floppy on the front and a CGA graphics card inside.

And putting a TFT on a small form factor pc and passing it as an "all-in-one" isn't going to fool anyone either.]]>Mar 23rd 2006 7:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/23/gateways-profile-6-desktop-offers-lots-of-expansion-not-so-muc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/23/gateways-profile-6-desktop-offers-lots-of-expansion-not-so-muc/http://www.e-fuze.com]]>Mar 23rd 2006 7:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/23/gateways-profile-6-desktop-offers-lots-of-expansion-not-so-muc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/23/gateways-profile-6-desktop-offers-lots-of-expansion-not-so-muc/Mar 23rd 2006 7:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/23/gateways-profile-6-desktop-offers-lots-of-expansion-not-so-muc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/23/gateways-profile-6-desktop-offers-lots-of-expansion-not-so-muc/Mar 23rd 2006 8:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/23/gateways-profile-6-desktop-offers-lots-of-expansion-not-so-muc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/23/gateways-profile-6-desktop-offers-lots-of-expansion-not-so-muc/Mar 23rd 2006 8:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/23/gateways-profile-6-desktop-offers-lots-of-expansion-not-so-muc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/23/gateways-profile-6-desktop-offers-lots-of-expansion-not-so-muc/Mar 23rd 2006 8:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/23/gateways-profile-6-desktop-offers-lots-of-expansion-not-so-muc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/23/gateways-profile-6-desktop-offers-lots-of-expansion-not-so-muc/Mar 23rd 2006 8:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/23/gateways-profile-6-desktop-offers-lots-of-expansion-not-so-muc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/23/gateways-profile-6-desktop-offers-lots-of-expansion-not-so-muc/Mar 23rd 2006 8:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/23/gateways-profile-6-desktop-offers-lots-of-expansion-not-so-muc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/23/gateways-profile-6-desktop-offers-lots-of-expansion-not-so-muc/-or-
looks like an imac with Next disease, or borg aspirations]]>Mar 23rd 2006 9:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/23/gateways-profile-6-desktop-offers-lots-of-expansion-not-so-muc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/23/gateways-profile-6-desktop-offers-lots-of-expansion-not-so-muc/Mar 23rd 2006 10:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/23/gateways-profile-6-desktop-offers-lots-of-expansion-not-so-muc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/23/gateways-profile-6-desktop-offers-lots-of-expansion-not-so-muc/Mar 23rd 2006 11:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/23/gateways-profile-6-desktop-offers-lots-of-expansion-not-so-muc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/23/gateways-profile-6-desktop-offers-lots-of-expansion-not-so-muc/Mar 23rd 2006 11:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/23/gateways-profile-6-desktop-offers-lots-of-expansion-not-so-muc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/23/gateways-profile-6-desktop-offers-lots-of-expansion-not-so-muc/
My college just upgrade to 6 of the older models, and the adjustable screen is great. I have no gripes from using it for the past two years, but they do break down a lot more than the regular computers (when one doesn't work, they have to remove that computer and wait until they get one back because of the space restrictions on the desk).]]>Mar 24th 2006 1:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/23/gateways-profile-6-desktop-offers-lots-of-expansion-not-so-muc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/23/gateways-profile-6-desktop-offers-lots-of-expansion-not-so-muc/
Seriously, though, why's everything always gotta be pretty with you people? It seems like an extremely functional machine for an educational environment.]]>Mar 24th 2006 3:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/23/gateways-profile-6-desktop-offers-lots-of-expansion-not-so-muc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/23/gateways-profile-6-desktop-offers-lots-of-expansion-not-so-muc/Mar 24th 2006 10:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/23/gateways-profile-6-desktop-offers-lots-of-expansion-not-so-muc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/23/gateways-profile-6-desktop-offers-lots-of-expansion-not-so-muc/
i see these style gateways all the time, in banks, real estate offices etc.]]>Mar 24th 2006 10:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/23/gateways-profile-6-desktop-offers-lots-of-expansion-not-so-muc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/23/gateways-profile-6-desktop-offers-lots-of-expansion-not-so-muc/Mar 24th 2006 12:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/23/gateways-profile-6-desktop-offers-lots-of-expansion-not-so-muc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/23/gateways-profile-6-desktop-offers-lots-of-expansion-not-so-muc/
http://www.gateway.com/products/gconfig/prodconfig.asp?system_id=profile6b&seg=cp

You can add a 9-1 memory card reader instead of Floppy drive... and even has Pentium D (dual core) options.

This unit ain't meant to be PRETTY... it is meant to get the job done, and save on space! I am a fan, perfect for Dr.'s offices, schools, and small business call centers, places with NOT A LOT of room, but still need a ROBUST system!

Cheers Gateway!]]>Mar 24th 2006 12:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/23/gateways-profile-6-desktop-offers-lots-of-expansion-not-so-muc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/23/gateways-profile-6-desktop-offers-lots-of-expansion-not-so-muc/
We are seriously looking at buying 15 of them to use as classroom instructor stations. They are small and compact, faster by a lot than a laptop but use little more space, and have all the connectivity options you could ask for.

We have two of the 4 series and they have been rock solid for four years. Reliable and bulletproof.

I just specced out a system with a dual core, 19" LCD, 1GB ram, wireless, etc for around $1500 with a 4 year warranty. That is really not bad at all. ]]>Mar 24th 2006 1:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/23/gateways-profile-6-desktop-offers-lots-of-expansion-not-so-muc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/23/gateways-profile-6-desktop-offers-lots-of-expansion-not-so-muc/http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060323/lath025.html?.v=48) and it’s not for home users… it’s for colleges, government, business. The IT people I work with don’t care about sexy, they just want something that is powerful, affordable, and easy to service and manage. If you want sexy, go buy a $2500 Mac for your home. But businesses care about the bottom line.]]>Mar 24th 2006 5:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/23/gateways-profile-6-desktop-offers-lots-of-expansion-not-so-muc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/23/gateways-profile-6-desktop-offers-lots-of-expansion-not-so-muc/Mar 28th 2006 7:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/23/gateways-profile-6-desktop-offers-lots-of-expansion-not-so-muc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/23/gateways-profile-6-desktop-offers-lots-of-expansion-not-so-muc/
Get your head out of your pocket protector. Do you ever read?? To start options are - Intel® Pentium® D Processor with Intel® dual-core processing options, Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor with HT Technology1 or Intel® Celeron® D Processor, 3.5” Floppy Disk or Optional 9-in-One Media Card Reader (CompactFlash®
I, CompactFlash® II, IBM MicroDrive™, Memory Stick, Memory Stick PRO™,MultiMediaCard™, Secure Digital, SmartMedia™ Card, and xD-Picture Card™, Six USB 2.0 Ports (4 side, 2 front), 10/100/1000 (Gigabit) Ethernet (RJ-45),Optional Modem (RJ-11), Two PS/2® (keyboard and mouse), One Parallel, One Serial, VGA-In/DVI-In, Five Audio, 2 Front Audio, and Two IEEE 1394 (FireWire.

As for the design, it works. Unlike your car. So go back in your room and play with your white-box, bland, green screen, 5.25 inch floppy. ;-)
]]>Mar 29th 2006 8:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/23/gateways-profile-6-desktop-offers-lots-of-expansion-not-so-muc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/23/gateways-profile-6-desktop-offers-lots-of-expansion-not-so-muc/Profile 4, (~250 count in production) crap, lcd issues and a whore on HDD.
Profile 5, (~200 count in production) not much better
Profile 6, (~50 count in production) plz read above.
Stock $1.72
When Gateway goes bust and gets bought by a Asian Company

That will be Priceless! ]]>May 29th 2006 10:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/23/gateways-profile-6-desktop-offers-lots-of-expansion-not-so-muc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/23/gateways-profile-6-desktop-offers-lots-of-expansion-not-so-muc/Oct 16th 2006 8:16AM