Welcome to another video.

Now, as you can probably tell by my sunburn face, I've just got back from holiday, and that means I don't have any new hardware to test today.

But while I was in the airport, I read up on a company that sounded very interesting.

A company that back in the early two thousands caused quite a stir in the world of pre boat Peces on weren't without their fair share of controversy.

Today I want to document that company in a mini retrospective video because I think their business practices and ideas were very interesting, to say the least.

So, without further ado, in what is a slightly different video, let's get into it and talk about go l computers.

Now, if you were keen on building yourself a custom gaming re capable of tackling any modern game with these in mid 2003 then you may have followed a build guide such as this one over at the Puget Systems website.

The combination of a 3.2 gigahertz Pentium four in video G Force FX 5900 ultra on one gig of DDR Ram inside your case would have surely made you the envy of your PC gaming buddies.

But why spend a couple of $1000 when you could spend 26,000 on this behemoth?

Which, of course, came bundled with a modest 96 inch 6400 by 1200 display?

This was the innovation of a company known as Go L, founded by mysterious entity named Miguel Lieberman.

Now it's said that Mr Lieberman was fed up with the slow speeds of his laptop that couldn't offer the processing power required for him to finish editing a Coca Cola ad using Adobe Premiere.

This could be plausible.

After all, there is a profile on IMDb for a cinematographer who shares the same name, but his filmography is limited to a single, questionable sounding short film.

Now Go airwar.

Lieberman Incorporated operated out of California and offered products based on hardware that wasn't commercially available and technology that was unheard off.

Take the Mac L Gold, for example, the specs of which, as well as others, can still be found on the site dreamers wanted.

This isn't the original site, merely just the mirror hosted within a portfolio.

The original site itself is just a mess of re directions and four security prompts these days.

Anyway, this machine featured an overcooked 4.5 gigahertz Pentium 45 terabytes of storage and a pure RAM solid state flash drive, which could store the operating system and make a traditional hard drive completely unnecessary or configurable options, of course.

So let's say back in 2003 or 2004 you're still in two minds about these computers.

Some people are saying it's an elaborate hoax, and some are adding one of these machines to their Christmas list well, to add fuel to the fire, the fire that would have been caused by something like an overcooked 4.5 gigahertz Pentium four, for example, Maximum PC actually got hold of a proto type unit after they had received tons of reader requests for them to check out one of these systems.

Unsurprisingly, the bill that turned up lacked some of the promised features, but the magazine did say it was impressively spect none, the less.

It arrived with a 3.2 gigahertz Pentium four over clock to 3.8 gigahertz and apparently chilled to minus 20 degrees Celsius.

One gig of OSI said Memory and an 80 i radio 9800 ext.

Graphics card.

Laugh as much as you want as your court are five.

All rise in seven system pers away and your desk.

But back in January 2004 these components were top notch, and more importantly, the mackerel was really sure.

It lacked a lot of the promised Tech and suffered from horrific cable management.

But this $6000 box had finally been seen in the flesh after testing it out.

It seemed to do very well, though that didn't stop maximum PC ending their article on a very speculative note.

After all, who knew when these systems were going to make it to retail so that the everyday consumer could enjoy their performance if they could afford one?

Of course.

Furthermore, remember that huge monitor I spoke over the start, the 96 inch run with an eye watering resolution?

Well, don't ask me how I know this, But if you've watched sex in the city Season six, to be precise, then you might remember certain character by the name of Aleksandr Petrovsky, a wealthy artist.

Now look closely at the background of his apartment What do we see?

I hear you ask.

Well, could it be the L Computers?

Infamous Grand Canyon multi display monitor all 96 inches off it?

Considering Mr Lieberman's apparent connection to the world of film and entertainment, is it really a surprise that his products finally popped up somewhere?

Well, to the skeptics, Yes, because this steel wasn't convincing enough because of this.

The company eventually folded in October of 2004 with its closure ironically being reported in another issue of maximum PC that December go l sighted financial issues and its unshakable, controversial reputation for the closure.

But did they actually sell anything?

Well, I managed to find a couple of reviews for their products, one of which, favorable and maximum PC themselves only heard from one apparent owner after putting out a request for customer testimonials.

Others say they inquired about ordering but couldn't contact anyone.

I guess these high tech machines were too good to be true, but wait, there's more.

In 2005 the company's assets were bought by a Canadian firm, and once again we started seeing product pages for top end hardware, this time in the form of laptops this quad core model, advertised before quad core CPI use were even available, promised a whopping 24 hour battery life.

No, I don't know about you, but I still haven't found a laptop that lasts more than five or six hours with moderate usage, even ones with low powered potato specs.

Here's where things get a little more dodgy does.

After being acquired by the effort, mention Canadian firm L Computers under its new name was scrutinized for fraudulent investor activity.

This was a result off the Canadian company's involvement in other questionable practices, and it seems the original computer company was purely a victim of this occurrence.

A final letter was then issued by the apparent Mr Lieberman in 2007 stating The end of operation thanks to lack of funds and an even more tarnished reputation.

If you think about it, this was a company that in its infancy was promising solid state drives for laptops and desktops alike, a practice that is commonplace today.

Maybe they were just dreamers, but if go l computers were serious about their plan and maybe started smaller to get the ball rolling, who knows where they be today, Maybe they'd be one of the biggest players on the market.

So with all that said, I hope you've enjoyed this mini retrospective of a company that had a very mixed reputation and a lot of speculation surrounding it.

I know this video's been a little bit different, but I just found this topic too interesting not to cover.

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