Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!uwvax!persoft!eda From: eda@persoft.com (Ed Almasy) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: Gateway 2000 Computers Message-ID: <1991Mar12.152048.2065@persoft.com> Date: 12 Mar 91 15:20:48 GMT References: <1991Mar8.011318.28717@mathcs.sjsu.edu> Distribution: usa Organization: Persoft, Inc. Lines: 24 In article jc58+@andrew.cmu.edu (Johnny J. Chin) writes: >In summary ... I have to say DO NOT BUY THEM! ... I have heard from too many >people here (on campus) and back home in NYC who have bought a GATEWAY computer >because they are CHEAP. And that is exactly what they are ... CHEAP ... in >price as well as quality. Many of them had problems with right out of the box. >Things from not running protected-mode software properly (ie. freezing after a >few minutes) to system dropping dead altogether (things such as motherboards >and power supplies). My friends, who have used GATEWAY said that they will >never buy one from them again; and will spend a little more money and get a >much more reliable system. This is ridiculous. Of the seven friends/co-workers of mine that have purchased Gateway 2000 computers in the past year, NONE of them have had ANY problems with their systems. To the best of my knowledge all of them have nothing but good things to say about Gateway 2000. Perhaps you've got Gateway confused with another company? Or maybe you're affiliated with some other computer manufacturer? :-)