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From: mms00786@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Gateway 2000 - caution.
Message-ID: <111700110@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 22 Jun 89 21:03:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uxa.cso.uiuc.edu!mms00786    Jun 22 16:03:00 1989


Whine time!

I bought a Gateway 2000 29 days ago specifically to do Windows programming and
word processing (I am a student programmer!). Boy, did they take me on a ride.
Apart from extremely unstable hardware, they are not even 50% compatible. 
Windows/386 just wont run (by their own admittance after the sale), windows 286
runs but can't use Smartdrv, Lotus Manuscript won't preview... etc etc etc.

Their technical support people are nice and polite, but ill qualified; they 
seem to think that all the entire computing world wonts to do is ape over
DESKView. (That seems to be the only program that works).  

So in closing, I strongly caution anybody who is considering their machine. Once
again, it is not even close to compatible.

Also, after a month and a half of utter waste, I am back in the 386 20MHz
market. If someone can recommend a reasonably priced machine that runs 
windows/386 in High Res mode, and has a generally good reliability, I would
*really* appreciate any and all email. I just can't believe what any mail
order salesman says anymore...

Thanks, and thanks for bearing with me.

Milan.
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