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Acer to acquire Gateway for $710 million
infoworld.com ^
| August 27, 2007
| Sumner Lemon and Dan Nystedt
Posted on 08/27/2007 10:07:25 PM PDT by paudio
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One by one... First IBM... Now Gateway...
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posted on
08/27/2007 10:07:27 PM PDT
by
paudio
To: ShadowAce
To: paudio
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posted on
08/27/2007 10:11:18 PM PDT
by
stephenjohnbanker
( Hunter/Thompson/Thompson/Hunter in 08! "Read my lips....No new RINO's" !!)
To: paudio
One by one... First IBM... Now Gateway...
IBM still is American. The PC division was sold to Lenovo, a Chinease/PRC company.
Acer is Taiwanese/ROC.
Acer is based in Taiwan, the Republic of China on Formosa. Don't confuse Taiwan and China.
Of course many subsystems will come from Chinease factories, but this is true now.
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posted on
08/27/2007 10:51:35 PM PDT
by
rmlew
(Build a wall, attrit the illegals, end the anchor babies, Americanize Immigrants)
To: paudio
Not IBM. IBM’s laptop business.
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posted on
08/27/2007 10:51:35 PM PDT
by
DB
To: paudio
John Hui built up eMachines, Gateway bought it and ran it into the ground. Now Acer gets both for a song. Acer is very well run - I consider this excellent news forPC consumers.
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posted on
08/27/2007 11:02:01 PM PDT
by
JasonC
To: paudio
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posted on
08/27/2007 11:10:29 PM PDT
by
amchugh
(large and largely disgruntled)
To: paudio
I recall when the CEO of my company, Lee Stein, invited Ted Waite to visit in San Diego. We were just planning to help him set up a means of selling his products over the internet (1996). Waite liked the city so much he decided to move his headquarters. I wonder how much that decision played into the decline and sell off of the company.
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posted on
08/27/2007 11:11:01 PM PDT
by
Myrddin
To: JasonC
Acer was my first PC...it sucked. Would have switched back to Apple had my employer not required using a PC. Hope they’ve improved. My daughter loves her two emachines and was planning on purchasing a new unit.
To: paudio
Don’t forget HPs acquisition of Compaq.
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posted on
08/27/2007 11:17:25 PM PDT
by
zencat
(The universe is not what it appears, nor is it something else.)
To: bigfootbob
They have definitely improved. Yeah they were the el cheapo brand quite a while ago. Check out the "Ferrari" laptops they made in the last couple of years, though, and you will see they can make high end stuff these days...
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posted on
08/27/2007 11:23:11 PM PDT
by
JasonC
To: JasonC
Oh wonderful, more crappy computers.
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posted on
08/27/2007 11:27:28 PM PDT
by
Hubenator
(Evolution does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.)
To: Myrddin
Gateway was on top of the mountain in South Dakota for awhile. Great brand, very nice computers. Then came their move to San Diego, the opening of their retail stores and the PC profit margins shrinking to nothing.
Bye bye Gateway
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posted on
08/27/2007 11:27:50 PM PDT
by
SideoutFred
(Save us from the Looney Left)
To: paudio
I knew back when Gateway had those stores everywhere, they were going to have problems. I went into one to check out a computer (never having owned one) and found out you couldn’t buy one there.
You had to order it and wait for 2 weeks for it to be delivered and also pay the postage and sales tax (such a deal). I passed!
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posted on
08/27/2007 11:31:00 PM PDT
by
packrat35
(PIMP my Senate. They're all a bunch of whores anyway!)
To: Myrddin
I recall when the CEO of my company, Lee Stein, invited Ted Waite to visit in San Diego. We were just planning to help him set up a means of selling his products over the internet (1996). Waite liked the city so much he decided to move his headquarters. I wonder how much that decision played into the decline and sell off of the company.
Ted Waite has been using Gateway stock (GTW) as his personal cash machine for years and years. Check out his stock sales just over the last two years; they've been relentless, netting him vast sums of cash while Gateway's regular shareholders were getting seriously hosed (and his sales before 2005 were much, much larger!):
Gateway (GTW) insider transactions
To: zencat
Remember Compaqs acquisition of DEC, they never recovered.
To: bigfootbob
Acer was my first PC...it sucked. Mine too, it sucked too.
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posted on
08/28/2007 12:16:29 AM PDT
by
Graybeard58
(Remember and pray for SSgt. Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
To: Myrddin
I recall when the CEO of my company, Lee Stein, invited Ted Waite to visit in San Diego. We were just planning to help him set up a means of selling his products over the internet (1996). Waite liked the city so much he decided to move his headquarters. I wonder how much that decision played into the decline and sell off of the company.I did some contracting for Gateway about 11 or 12 years ago, commuting from KC to North Sioux City, SD for a week at a time, then coming back home for 2 weeks, for about a year. While Gateway (It was still Gateway 2000 back then) was known for being cut-throat in its wages, it seemed to be a pretty fun place to work, and the people I met were pretty happy working there. A couple of things I remember were BBQ lunches on Fridays during the good weather, with dollar burgers or brats, and a DJ under a big inflatable cow. And Ted had sponsored a couple of race cars, and he'd occasionally have them brought to the factory, and tear around the parking lot in them! That was about the time that Ted rejected a buy-out offer from Compaq, well before Compaq and HP merged.
Mark
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posted on
08/28/2007 12:19:44 AM PDT
by
MarkL
(Listen, Strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government)
To: Bayou City
Remember Compaqs acquisition of DEC, they never recovered.They did it to get into the high end workstation / midrange market. Remember that they also bought Tandon at about the same time, known for their fault tolerant systems. It did sort of make sense at the time, but then, this was the time when Intel processors began to leapfrog forward in processing power. NT was also designed to run on the MIPS processor, which was in the DEC systems, and those processors were so much more powerful than the Intel processors of that time.
Mark
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posted on
08/28/2007 12:24:48 AM PDT
by
MarkL
(Listen, Strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government)
To: JasonC
I have an Acer computer as my latest one.. I’m very happy with it, things like the keyboard is very high quality, and easy to type on. Also the price was incredible for what I got. Intel Core duo, 2 gigs ram, 250 gb hardrive, dvd dual, vista..
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posted on
08/28/2007 12:31:38 AM PDT
by
ran20
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