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PC Mag: Gateway Ad, FileMaker review

updated 10:30 pm EST, Thu December 19, 2002

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Several MacNN readers note that the latest issue of PC Magazine contains an advertisement for Gateway, which features an Apple PowerBook G4 being used to listen to music in an advertisement titled "Shoot, Edit, or Jam." We've posted an , which was originally provided to us by MacNN reader Dan Sloan.

Separately, the January 2003 issue of the PC Magazine credits Apple's FileMaker Pro 6 as being superior to Microsoft Access 2002 and five other database products, making it the Editor�s Choice for Personal Databases.

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12/19, 11:05pm | report spam | close Reply |
Gateway Ad

That, my friends, is TREMENDOUS. Humor at its finest.

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12/19, 11:36pm | report spam | close Reply |
Gateway Ad

It's probably a stock photo.

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12/19, 11:41pm | report spam | close Reply |
Stock Photo A-Hoy!

Yeah, Gateway probably never saw this ad as it was probably created by a local shop for the paper it was printed in.. still, PC makers have bup-kiss to show in their print ads cause they ain't got nothing that's pretty, slim, and managable.. advertising is about lying, and Gateway's lying tryin to fool folks into buying their cruddy puters.. how long do you think they have till they go belly up?

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Re: Stock Photo A-Hoy!

It really is lying. I'm not a big fan of litigation, but using thin Apple laptops to sell thick bloated gateways really is a scam.

Apple should at least get on gateways case. After the last couple of months having to listen to why their new flat panel desktop is sooo superior to an imac, and then for this to happen. Blah.

Stock art or not, powerbooks being used to sell gateways is lame.

The more I type the more upset I get. I had better stop here.

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12/20, 12:59am | report spam | close Reply |
top left of ad

says shoot, edit or jam

more like...

Shoot, edit, and scam

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Re: Top left of ad

Comedy gold!

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12/20, 04:37am | report spam | close Reply |
More like...

...Shoot, Yourself, In Foot

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12/20, 08:41am | report spam | close Reply |
Oh no they DIDN'T!!!

Apple, the news exposure, alone, is worth making a stink over this. C'mon, sue 'em. You've sued for less.

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12/20, 10:45am | report spam | close Reply |
Lawyers....

Maybe they had to inlcude a Mac so they could claim "Shoot, Edit or Jam"....

Nah, then it would say "Shoot, Edit and Jam".

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12/20, 10:57am | report spam | close Reply |
Yes and No

Stock art, Yes. But is it a local shop, No.

It doesn't say "a PC magazine", it says "PC Magazine. I don't think this is for a little area of Iowa. Anybody can pick this up.

Gateway is SOOOOO full of lies. I called them when their Profile came out. I played dumb and asked them all about it. They told me more than 5 blatant lies to try to get me to buy one of their computers and not to buy an iMac.

A few that I recall: It didn't matter if the Mac had an Nvidea GeForce 4 video card because it's processor was too slow to take advantage of it.

DVD RAM is better than DVD-R because it can burn Data and Movies.

Their DVD burner (not in the profile, she has already moved me over to a desktop system because they couldn't match what the iMac had) in their system was more compatible with consumer DVD players than the iMac.

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Found It

The image is a rights-managed stock photo from Stone (Getty Images). At least it's not Royalty Free. Go to gettyimages.com and search for "la9265-002" I actually searched for "Laptop and Headphones" guess what came up as the first hit.

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12/20, 12:25pm | report spam | close Reply |
So..

Come on, people, we ALL need to call Gateway and say "I have to have the laptop in your ad. It's so cool and sleek and s***. It's so much nicer than anything in your ad. Who do I make the check out to?" :)

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12/20, 01:17pm | report spam | close Reply |
So, none are Gateway's?

If this photo is a stock photo, is the entire ad nothing but other companies' computers? What a rip!

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12/20, 02:11pm | report spam | close Reply |
photo

for 99.99% of the people, it just looks like a generic laptop, something that is quickly glanced over and then the page is turned, or they move on, no big deal acually. On the outise, its just looks like a laptop, plain and simple.

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Microcenter

Microcenter is selling refurbished 5 Gb iPods for $179.99. Get yours while you can!!!!!!

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Microcenter

Microcenter is selling refurbished 5 Gb iPods for $179.99. Get yours while you can!!!!!!

http://www.microcenter.com/images/specials/1202b_page2_800.jpg

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12/20, 04:44pm | report spam | close Reply |
Gateway, again...

I love their cute Profile ads on TV, where the Profile moves and grooves while the iMac is rigid and unmoveable- in contrast to reality where the Profile is rigid and the iMac can be moved into a virtually infinite number of positions.

They know what sells, and they have to make it seem that they're the ones who have it, even if they don't.

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12/20, 06:37pm | report spam | close Reply |
Hm, I wonder...

If an user tries to do the same with the Profile as he saw it moving in the ad, how long will the Profile last...

(Gotta ask Gateway for that cool notebook on their ad...)

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Definitely!

Yeah, we all gotta ask about that sleek notebook! BTW, that Gateway Profile would probably crack before it moved.

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Original ad?

I was wondering if anyone had an ariginal copy of the ad. (Without the blown up Power Book)

I'd really appreciate it.

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Stock Art

View the stock photo.

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Yeah, but look at that...

42 inch plasma display for cheap!!!!

Hope the digital input works with my Mac

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Don't buy Gateway

My family bought a Gateway in Australia (about a year or so before they shut down operations in the Pacific) and it is the biggest piece of c*** I have ever come across. The hardware must have been a piece of second-hand junk they picked up from the street because we've had nightmare after nightmare with it and it hasn't stopped.

I'm using an iBook now and I can't believe Gateway featured a Powerbook in its ad. It is total and utter baloney. They should be shot in the foot and the head.

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PC Mag: Gateway Ad, FileMaker review

updated 10:30 pm EST, Thu December 19, 2002

Gateway Ad

Gateway Ad

Stock Photo A-Hoy!

Re: Stock Photo A-Hoy!

top left of ad

Re: Top left of ad

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Oh no they DIDN'T!!!

Lawyers....

Yes and No

Found It

So..

So, none are Gateway's?

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Microcenter

Microcenter

Gateway, again...

Hm, I wonder...

Definitely!

Original ad?

Stock Art

Yeah, but look at that...

Don't buy Gateway

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