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Does Gateway Have A Future?
Hi, I was thinking Gateway used to be a very popular home PC. However, over the years there desktops and laptops haven't been selling good. How could of this happened? I always thought that Gateway had good PC's. But, with there stocks falling tremendously do you think that Gateway leave the computing business, or try and gain control of the PC world? Let me know what you think! [:D]
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I think Gateway used to make some crappy PCs.. remember when all thier stores went out of business? Now that they bought Emachines but Emachines is really taking Gateway over (the desktops and notebooks look exactly alike with those blue buttons!) it looks like the PCs at retail are good with nice specs if your're on budget.
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Yeah, I agree. I think with the buyout of emachine, they will definitely have a chance to stay in business since it still one of the most affordable budget laptop out there. As long as Gateway is smart enough to keep the A64 chip intact and make a couple of marketing changes here and there, they should be ok.
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I think you folks miss the mark here, even OPENING a store in the PC World specific to one brand -back when they opened them- was just a bad business decision. The retail stores didn't really 'go out of business', they just came about at the wrong time, keep in mind back then a $2,000 desktop was commonplace, I don't think ANYONE that would have had the ambition to open specialty stores back then would have them open today, the only exception is Apple/Mac, but that is a different world altogether.
Now, if you were to open stores TODAY, the only one that could possibly do it would be Dell, but even then, why would they ? The overhead is killer, and their direct sales via the web or 800 number would dwarf it.
NAFTA killed the industry as we knew it, and brought us much cheaper prices, at the cost of hundreds of thousands of jobs.
Was it worth it ? If you worked in the industry, no, if you are a power pc consumer, I guess it was........
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Gateway did have a future couple years back until when they did a contract with Office Max, by having their own reps at the retail store and hoping a customer would come in and go ahead place an order from them. Thats where they went downhill. And on top of that their reliability dropped because of profit loss, so they layed off a bunch of employees and cut back on most of the quality parts as you see today where everyone have problems with their hindges on their notebooks, or things not working here and there. But in a sense I still think they will make it alive by bringing out the AMD64 notebooks itself with a lot of extra goodies with a low price tag.[:)] I wish their AMD Athlon 64 notebooks would juss get smaller now so I can use to play CS Source haha [:)]
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Good question, who knows???
Jack
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Unless I am mistaken, almost everybody in the industry has laid off people, especially those companies that were manufacturing in the USA (Thanks, NAFTA, Mr. Clinton), and those that have not are mainly automated or are built with basically slave labor.
I think coupling Gateway with E-Machines is a GREAT combo, where they are melding products together, whereas you have HP and Compaq 'together', but their products are separate, that is a waste of technical expertise.
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I purchased a gateway desktop back when the 450mhz p3 was hot. I had horrible hardware problems with that computer, but customer service was decent.
I recently purchased a m305 crv on ebay, and its been hell to get the computer fixed. They could not make any sense of the serial over 4 months of searching, then they finally got it all together. One day my computer freaked out, and all kinds of hardware went down. I sent the computer in for service, and they refused to replace the motherboard becuase I put xp pro on it. They insisted that the computer was designed to work with xp home, and would not replace the mobo.
I was told for months that the computer data would be switched over to my serial #, since they lost it, and was instructed to "call back in a week." After a few months of that, I finally got ahold of a tech taht did it during the same call.
Now though they insist the mobo is bad, I am posting from the computer, but the cpu fan is dead. I will never buy another computer from gateway, the customer service was terrible, and thier hardware sucks.
I also am amazed of what lengths they will go to, to ensure that they don't have to service your computer.
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I almost bought from them but I had such a headache trying to purchase from the sales representative on the phone (I had a discount lined up), I just gave up. If it is that hard to BUY from them when they WANT your money. Imagine when they already HAVE YOUR MONEY....
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Gateway will definately fold up or be swallowed by DELL or the Koreans [:D]
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