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This website is ripping apple's look and feel off.

I figured that was the case since the message on the main page basically said in so many words "Sorry, if you have a Mac you aren't good enough to browse this page without a crapload of bugs because we want everyone to think that the PC is the only computer you need to use the internet"
 
WOW!! They say that there 17" Laptop is almost twice as fast as the G5 2.0!!!

If there are real I think those moniters are kind of cool but that is just me.
 
I am going to there "office" tomorrow to see if this is for real or at least one thing that they claim.
 
Guys have any of you read the specs on the equipment

obviously it's a spoof of apple,

"Presenting the world's fastest 16" and most feature rich laptop ever made. 's new Producer notebook is the ultimate professional mobile workstation featuring a phenomenal 16" UltraSpeed™ display and technologies never before conceivable in a small factor, like PuRam™ No System HD_technology, support for up to 4 internal hard drives 320GB with built-in RAID technology, up to 2 optical drives, upgradeable 3.20GHz Pentium 4 Hyper-Threading CPU, 800MHz Bus clock speed, dual-Channel DDR 433MHz Memory up to 4 GB, the world's highest performing mobile graphics chip ATI Mobility Radeon™ 9600 Pro 128MB_DDR, built-in MP3 Player, TV_Tuner, 6-1 card reader, DVI output, Pro 6 channel Digital Audio, and more, make the ultimate desktop replacement and the most powerful notebook computer ever engineered. And with SuperComputing SuperBIOS™ and CacheFlow™ Technologies, and an exclusive optimized OS with over 2800 proprietary performance and productivity enhancements, it is radically like no other."

i thought it was hilarious,
 
the only thing that resembles something real is that cinerama display, i saw a company release a prebuild system for a G4 that could support a set up like that

it had a dual monitor support card, plus a second graphics card in the PCI slot to support the 3rd monitor
 
sorry about the overlabs, i'm noticing that everybody already got that far...

my bad
 
Now I'm confused. Below is a screenshot of the digital cert for the checkout site. This stuff cost money, how much I don't have a clue. If nothing else it means they put A LOT of effort into a fake site. I went as far as to the point where they ask for a credit card. Thanks but I'll spend my 7 grand somewhere else. If this is a fake and they take a CCard its fraud. I've been doing some snooping with who owns this site, easy enough to do at register.com, and there is a whole hell of a lot of things that don't add up and some that do. :confused:
 

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Whatever the motive, hats off to these guys,

they put together a very entertaining website,

great use of jargon, very well thought out specs,

this was probably some multimedia project a bunch or maybe even one, of guys made.

And someone really like it and they put it up,

no reason to get all bent out of shape about it, it's like Celebs and polititions getting mad at SLN or the simpsons for making fun of them on TV...

I love this Website, haha check out the rock sections, it's awsome

now that i think about it probably a business/multimedia project... my friends in commerce do it as they're end projects, make up a company with products and sell it to the professors, and if it's good, they get good marks.... these guys went all out
 
"The Store also accepts bank wire transfers as a valid form of payment"

and they have a offshore numbered account at the bottom to sent money too..

this is so worth an A+
 
sorry to be flooding this thread with post after post, but i can't seem to get enough of this

the desktop has a cooling system that runs at -35 degrees celcius to account for the heat exerted by the chip
 
Excerpts from an email recieved from Go-l.

"...I was almost impelled to write a post [referring to this thread]. Yes there is a 3.2 Intel Extreme Edition CPU, yes you can run it at 3.8GHz with proper cooling, no we did not rip-off icons from other people and instead asked for their permission to use them, and I could go on and on... but what's the point..."

I would post the rest of the email, but I agree with Go-l...whats the point.

I think this company is probably legitimite. They may not have the smartest marketing department...but they are doing nothing different than any other company. The truth is, every company has "fine" print. Every company is going to make their product look like the greatest thing since sliced bread. I certainly think they are overdoing it a bit and I question their moral compass; nonetheless, every computer company is guilty of maxing out specs to make their systems look better. Some companies even cheat with their benchmark results...
 
A -35 degree cooling system is not impossible, if you read the stuff on the site it is a modified air conditioning unit using r404a coolant. -35 would be no problem, with the heat given off by such a chip I would imagine this to cancel out at around 10 degree celcius, which is excellent. Personally I think the site is real, and yes I read someone mentioning fibre channel as an impossible HD option, YES fibre channel can be used with hard drives. (just look on ebay, theyre everywhere) Really I dont see anything on the site that would be blatantly incorrect as long as these are highly over clocked, over the top modded, machines. Oh and PuRAM which people are mentioning is non-volitile memory so it can be used as a RAM drive, which most of you know is SERIOUSLY fast I/O. I dont like the laptops personally, and I bet they get 5 minutes worth of battery time. But the dektops (at least the cases) are very nice, and Id love to cram a dual G5 in there ... heh.

And on a personal note, those are the most kick-a$$ display setups I have ever seen.
 
There are actually some pretty good reviews of the Asetek cooling systems they are using. http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/20001103/

By the way revenuee, Are you trying to feed misinformation intentionally? The website states up to -35c and documents how they accomplish it pretty well AND the bank wire purchase option isn't an offshore account - it's a Wells Fargo Bank in CA. Whether this company is legit or not, ethical or unethical...there is no need to misinform people who are reading this thread.
 
Originally posted by dcb
Excerpts from an email recieved from Go-l.

"...I was almost impelled to write a post [referring to this thread]. Yes there is a 3.2 Intel Extreme Edition CPU, yes you can run it at 3.8GHz with proper cooling, no we did not rip-off icons from other people and instead asked for their permission to use them, and I could go on and on... but what's the point..."
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Oh yeah right. Like Apple gave permission to use the "Finder" icon. They are so full of crap. Another thing is, they dont give credit where credit is due. The 'Hollywood' laptop is just an overclocked BolData laptop, but they dont mention that......EVER.
 
Originally posted by agreenster
Oh yeah right. Like Apple gave permission to use the "Finder" icon. They are so full of crap. Another thing is, they dont give credit where credit is due. The 'Hollywood' laptop is just an overclocked BolData laptop, but they dont mention that......EVER.
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My GOD! The BolData laptop tweaked out is something like half that if the (What the hell is the name of this company anyways?!?!) Hollywood system. The only thing that I can see that makes the Hollywood special is that they are loading the OS onto RAM.
 
Also note that their 16" weighs in at 9.3 lbs w/o Battery and bay options. Thats one heavy laptop. :)

And not a mention of any physical dimensions or battery life,

If this is legit, what they dont say is more telling than what they do.

btw what the hell is this PuRam stuff?
 
Originally posted by agreenster
Another thing is, they dont give credit where credit is due. The 'Hollywood' laptop is just an overclocked BolData laptop, but they dont mention that......EVER.
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I thought we went over this? Many manufactures allow for companies to put their label on their product. It is a common practice. They don't need to give credit. Chances are, BolData is doing the same thing. Makosuke explains it well:

Originally posted by Makosuke
My point is, it's possible that they're OEM rebranding some stuff, and building decked-out, overclocked boxes for the rest.
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I guess I could have went with your line:
YOUR NOT PAYING ATTENTION

Gee whiz, we are putting this company under more scrutiny than we put Apple through. I guarantee if we were to put apple.com under a microscope (or dell, or gateway, or microsoft) we could find just as many issues.
 
This thread is comical

I'm a Mac user, and a PC user. Apparently I'm one of a kind around here. I saw NOTHING new available for sale on that site that I could not buy from OEMs or part houses. **Including the refrigeration system that allows them to run the new P4 3.2EE at 3.8 ghz.

This isn't rocket science people. It's marketing, and that fact that they got a group of cacooned Mac users to argue about what's legit and what's not is proof of thier concept. They found a way to get traffic from people that don't regularly follow High-End and Custom (Wintel) PC parts.

But they did a good job of using the Apple feel for thier site.
 
OK, again I will ask, if they are indeed legit, where is some independent proof of it? The only references to them anywhere outside of their website is the same exact press release dated 9/22/03. Otherwise there is no reference to a Miguel Libermann or a Libermann Inc. anywhere that I've seen.

As far as the site is concerned, people have dug up the name and address that it's registered to on another forum. The person who owns the site registration is selling her '92 Paseo (no kidding) online because "The reason why I am selling it is because I am leaving out of the country for about one year..."

Hmmm...Now that sounds just a tad bit fishy to me, but I don't know, maybe it's just me... :)
 
There is one discussion board that lists her home phone number, license plate number, and other info. I'd post it, but I think it is inappropriate.

Nonetheless, I still think they are a legit company. Just a bit too much under scrutiny right now.
 
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