L-Technologies stops PCs being boring

A 1440 x 900 pixel display in a laptop?

I wish Apple would stop dragging their heels and come out with something like that. Just imagine... a 17" laptop!

And Eug continues to be amused...

That was some really familiar Apple look over their web site.

Mach 3.8 r000lllzz!!! The G5 sucks!!! And everything else sucks too!

If you look real hard you'll notice that they're illiterate too...



Or, maybe they, just like, commas.

I know lots of people with Dell Inspirons that have a native res of 1600*1200.

I love how their site is even "inspired" by Apple's.

-Owl

Impressive, but what's the point? 1600 x 1200 on a 15"? Doesn't everything (icons, text, tray, etc.) get a little small?

This seems to be the way threads about these machines progress on other sites too, except now with a Mac bent to it... LOL

Oh dear...

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

A MacOS logo on their website??

They reckon they're creative...
The website is a copy of Apple's.
Way to go, web designers.. way to go creativity!

Other than that, the specs of the high-end machines look rather nice.

35% are x86/Windows and 20% are Mac developers (out of 100 staff).. check the about page, which takes a while to load.

The thread is getting closer, but not quite there yet...

When I first saw the website I thought it was a joke...well, that hasn't changed as I still think it's a joke. Anyway, what are people thinking when they do things like that? I mean, even the "news" section is the same place as it is at the Apple site.



I wasn't aware Apple made a single 2Ghz machine .

I called the phone number and asked to speak to the web designer.

Can't believe its a real number and someone answered though...

They just disabled the other processor for the test to be fair to compare a 2 GHz G5 to a 3.2 GHz P4.

LOL. Actually, the Apple single 2.0 SPEC scores ARE 100% accurate.

It's exactly what Apple publishes on its site. SPECint 800 and SPECfp 840. And yes, to get this score they actually physically removed one of the processors. See here.

Anyways, it seems that some here get it and some don't...

Wait a minute... this is the new x86-based Apple company?!? I KNEW IT!

So what did s/he say?

They kept asking why, finally I was "transferred" and no one picked up. Calling again today as soon as they open.

holy fu&k



screw you apple, fu*king theives, 15" bs lcd displays with about a 3 pixel per inch resolution. i am so sick of 3 year old lcd technology being pushed on us for the price of todays technology that is on pc laptops...

Priceless!

So Eug tell us, what are we missing?

I'm just surprised how gullible some people are (although it's not everyone in the various threads).

It's particularly interesting to see Mac people in this thread use the L-Technologies site to bash Apple.

If it's a hoax (which it certainly looks like), then it's pretty elaborate. I look forward to hearing the true story about all of this.

I think he thinks it's a joke...at least I do.

it probably is a joke.

am about to go on an afternoon mission to locate maximum resolution in a resonably priced pc laptop, my only concern here.... since i want to buy a powerbook.

edit: research stop #1 dell.com

Vibrant 15.4" UltraSharpTM_ Wide Aspect WUXGA active matrix (TFT) display (native resolution of 1920x1200 pixels)


and yes i'm turning this into another of my apple lcd rant threads, sorry, it'll end right here.

Well so do I, but it must be one hell of a joke, getting a real 1-800 number and different people to answer it each time I call it.

Also, they typed one hell of a bit of information on every page, and the story behind their logo, etc.

7000+$ is a lot of money. So where is the internetco0ck picture?

Well, I can't completely rule out a scam, but I think it's just a (well-executed) joke, mainly because of stuff like this:



It still floors me though how many people think it's legitimate.

Anyone read the about page? http://www.go-l.com/about/index.htm Seems to be a tiny piece of 'original' site. It loads and loads and loads a piece of trashy flash, with a stupid soundtrack accompanying a tiny three page text about the founder. Turns out he's a 'switcher'... what a mo...

Again, let me sum up this web site and their six thousand dollar laptop:

"
* Not responsible for typographical errors and omissions.
Certain images are for illustration purposes only.
"

i.e., I have a nice Brooklyn Bridge to sell to you.

If you read the Legal section, you will see that you are agreeing to their terms just by BROWSING the web site.


What is _really_ interesting, is that if you try to order something, you will eventually get to a SSL encrypted order form where they will take your credit card number. Going that far is asking for lawsuits.

Everything looks real to me. The domain is only a month old, though. If it is real, they have the nicest PC laptop I've ever seen. The one thing that bothers me is this Miguel Liebermann guy. For some hot shot Hollywood commercial director you'd think you could find some info about him online. I searched and found nothing.

I suggest you check out eB@y first. They should have some nice 17" AluBooks for sale for under $1000.

Call the 1-800 number, it's real.

*OR* what it might do is play a recorded message and then forward the call to a real company...

Link please?

Smells like 'shyster ad agency' tactics to me.

Ever since the success of the �Super Greg� fake website ad campaign that bamboozled the hell out of millions of people, there�s a proven track record.

This newer take on an old trick is simple- design fake sites, designed to attract attention with highly questionable claims- promote it on web message boards (blatant Apple rip offs are a particularly inspired touch- adds an absolutely guaranteed 'over-reaction' factor) and then just sit back and count up clicks, as people play into the trap and pass the site along in 'Hey look at this' fashion.

Later, you (shyster ad agency) can boast to your clients "Our design and marketing is so good, our sites generate millions of hits... witness this printout of our hit tallies... So let us use or 'award winning expertise' and �promotion mastery� to get your business the same type of web presence and performance blah blah de blah..."

If they actually do link to some company selling anything to keep things legal- it's forwarded to some guy out in El Monte sitting in a room slapping $199 systems together, and reselling other people's products the same as anyone with a business licence and a yahoo store could.

At any rate, someone will make a few bucks off of people falling for the 'pass it along and do our promotion work for us' factor.

Heh, they have a lot of Power Mac G5 and PowerBook G4's on eBay with outrageous buy it now prices.

I like how they use Fire.app replacement icons, Rad-E8, and Apple icons.

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

It's suing time.

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

An iMac in the picture. Rotfl!

They use so many stock images! Overkill!

Errr... It was a sarcastic remark referring to all the eB@y scams out there. Buyer beware.

Yea, I realized that after I looked. I found a great deal, a 1GHz 17" for $1,000.

The Laptops are all Sager (has anyone heard of these people?) systems
The "Holywood" laptop looks this a re-badged Sager 4760
The "Producer" looks like a Sager 8890,
and the "Studio is this Sager 5680

Why do they have the Windows Taskbar so wide on all of there screens? The say they 'tweak' XP so it works better with there systems(?) why not use the better XP 'silver' skin instead of the 'super blue' Luna?

The folks over in the Ars technia Battlefront are calling ether a hoax (good) or a scam (bad).

Sager is a big laptop producer.

Except that the Studio has a 15" screen @ 2048x1536.

Heheh. That's my post over there. I started this thread after seeing posts there and on other PC forums.

The site is now down. I'm thinking hoax myself. 2 160GB 7200 rpm HD's in a 15" laptop??? That just doesn't seem feasible.

Site is still up.

In fact, the images I linked are all on that site, not hosted elsewhere.

Heh. We must be hitting them hard as they've added this to their index page:

"Mac users only: You may experience linking errors when using the main navegation bar above, with both the Internet Explorer and Safari Browsers. We are looking into the issue and correcting it as soon as the technical issues have been identified. PC users are not affected by this."



Note: "navegation".

Sorry. I got "temporarily unavailable" and even a "sorry for the inconvenience" pages for a few minutes.

Still skeptical.

They advertise 3D, graphic design, and other creative elements. So why don't they advertise the Floating Point scores?

It is a hoax! Those are the same guys from TV...