[Guillermo]

Bush!

[Huck]

It's about time.

[MineralMan]

Oops! I knew this was going to happen. When the stores first opened, at least the one in my area, you couldn't walk in, buy a computer, then walk out. Next door to the Gateway store was a Best Buy, where you could do just that.

Silly Gateway.

[Drango]

Willllllieeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[Support Free Republic]

Donate Here By Secure Server

[The South Texan]

What happened to Gateway? Thee computers are not that bad. Was this retail store concept part of their demise?

[InterceptPoint]

I walked into a Gateway store once and wandered around for 15 minutes waiting for one of the 5 or 6 salespeople who seemed to have nothing to do to ask me, for example, if I was interested in buying a computer. No soap. No sale. I walked out. It has been clear for well over a year that Gateway made a huge (make that hugh) mistake going into B&M retail. No surprise to me that they are bailing out. Dell has them beat and beat bad. I predict there will be no such thing as Gateway Computer in five years maybe less.

[Porterville]

All of them?? Can you say, "Clearance sale?"

[Rodney King]

I thought Gateway was the best in the early 90's. Then, around 1995, there was a 2.5 hour wait for tech support. In my opinion that's when they lost the war with Dell. Does anyone know if these stores have a lot of samples of the Plasma TV's? There is one near me, perhaps I can grab a floor model plasma TV on the cheap.

[spectre]

My husband's heart is going to be broken. I've been telling him to buy that Plasma TV!

They had the best prices in town..shoot.

sw

[nmh]

Of course that is the fault of Bush too. Anything that goes wrong is always HIS fault.

[anonymous_user]

Probably not an April Fools' joke.

[Williams]

Oh, only 188 stores and 2500 jobs. Still.

[EagleMamaMT]

I hate to hear this. The Gateway store in Springfield, MO, gives great service and has some of the nicest, most helpful sales staff I've ever met. I bought a computer system for my home-based business from that store about 2-1/2 years ago and it was great to walk in there, pay for it and walk out with it.

About a month ago, my CD rom drive got messed up and I had to have a new one. I went down to the Gateway store in Springfield, they ordered it and it was delivered to my house the next day. They told me, since my computer was still under warranty, to bring it down to them when the CD rom came in and they would install it. I walked in the door with my computer, gave it to the guy at the repair desk and it was installed in 15 minutes. I was out the door and on my way and it works great.

I've only had to call tech support one time with my Gateway (about 2 months ago) in the 2-1/2 years I've owned it. I spoke to an American computer tech and he solved my problem in 10 minutes (including time spent on hold).

I'm a VERY satisfied Gateway customer!

[MD_Willington_1976]

No big surprise here: Texas Instruments, HP, Gateway, Intel,& AMD are going to get there pants sued off by Intergraph for IP infringment...The hardest hit will probably be the Intel retailers...HP & Gateway. Dell got "off the hook"...see below.

AMD has filed a countersuit against Intergraph

Intergraph gets a $225,000,000 (yep thats almost a quarter billion) payout out of INTEL...

Now Intergraph is gunning for the INTEL OEM's...

As part of the settlement, Integraph will grant a licence to Dell to use some of its technologies, and drop it from a case it's pursuing which also includes HP and Gateway. That trial is set to start on August 2nd next.

What's Dell got to do with the Intel case? According to Intergraph, Dell filed a counterclaim against Intel last year.

[Recovering_Democrat]

My first computer was a Gateway...way way back in '94 or '95. I loved it. Bought a new one in 2000, and it didn't work right...big big big problems with the CD-R drive. I called several times in the first 2 weeks, and ran into a BRICK WALL. Bad attitude, who-cares-we're-Gateway, and they kept stonewalling me.

So, I called 'em and told them it was coming back. Suddenly, they gave a damn. But it was too late.

I returned the Gateway, and bought a Dell. I love the Dell, and plan to buy another sometime in 2005 or 2006.

[sonrise57]

My first windows box was a gateway (386). Before that I had and apple ][, after gateway i had a micron, then a dell. Gateway has lousy customer service as far as i can tell.

[Prime Choice]

That's too bad for the Gateway employees and all, but I've never heard anything but bad things about Gateway products. That's why I was seriously bummed to learn that Gateway had recently bought out eMachines (of which I have six perfectly-functioning systems).

Guess I'm back to building my own again. Thank God for the Shuttle and Antec bare-bones boxes.

[TonyM]

It was a dumb idea to begin with. And it made paying state taxes with a purchase a requirement. That was enough for me to write Gateway off.

[muleskinner]

In the AP report, the numbers of store closings and personnel layoffs doesn't jibe with a report from itmanagement.earthweb.com.
Itmanagement says they will close 80 stores - 29% of its outlets, and will lay off 1,900 carbon-based life-forms. A measely 17% of its positions.