For me, the best laptop I owned was a Gateway. It was a workhorse and was made in the USA. But then the company was sold and the new brand was Lenovo and made in China.
I thought Lenovo took over IBM’s thinkpad line. I didn’t know that they aquired gateway’s too.
I knew someone who had a gateway desktop in the 90s that lasted for well over twenty years. They stopped using it because the OS was long since obsolete. They were very well made in the early years.
I’ve always wondered what happened with Gateway. My dad told me the story about them which I thought was cool.