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L-Technologies stops PCs being boring
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:
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* Not responsible for typographical errors and omissions.
Certain images are for illustration purposes only.
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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.
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* Not responsible for typographical errors and omissions.
Certain images are for illustration purposes only.
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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.
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Originally posted by InterfaceGuy: 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. |
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Originally posted by arekkusu: 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. |
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...
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Originally posted by Eug: I suggest you check out eB@y first. They should have some nice 17" AluBooks for sale for under $1000.
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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.
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.
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Originally posted by InterfaceGuy: Link please? |
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!
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!
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Originally posted by InterfaceGuy: Link please? |
Buyer beware.
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Originally posted by Eug: Errr... It was a sarcastic remark referring to all the eB@y scams out there. Buyer beware.
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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).
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).
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Originally posted by Mediaman_12: The Laptops are all Sager (has anyone heard of these people?) systems |
Except that the Studio has a 15" screen @ 2048x1536.
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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.
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Originally posted by thunderous_funker: 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. |
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".
"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".
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Originally posted by Eug: Site is still up. In fact, the images I linked are all on that site, not hosted elsewhere. |
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...
