One by one... First IBM... Now Gateway...
1 posted on
08/27/2007 10:07:27 PM PDT by
paudio
To: ShadowAce
To: paudio
3 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.
4 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.
5 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.
6 posted on
08/27/2007 11:02:01 PM PDT by
JasonC
To: paudio
7 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.
8 posted on
08/27/2007 11:11:01 PM PDT by
Myrddin
To: paudio
Don’t forget HPs acquisition of Compaq.
10 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: 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!
14 posted on
08/27/2007 11:31:00 PM PDT by
packrat35
(PIMP my Senate. They're all a bunch of whores anyway!)
To: paudio
This “free trade” thing sure is working well for America.
To: paudio
Acer's acquisition deal with Gateway also derails rival Lenovo Group's plans to acquire Packard Bell. Packard Bell is still around?
25 posted on
08/28/2007 5:16:43 AM PDT by
Moonman62
(The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
To: paudio; All
Does anybody here actually own an Acer computer? If so is it any good?
33 posted on
08/28/2007 5:50:32 AM PDT by
Artemis Webb
(RON PAUL: "It will be a little bit better now with the democrats now in charge of oversight ")
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