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From: stephenc@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Stephen Chung)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Gateway 2000 Computers
Message-ID: <1991Mar16.164944.30046@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
Date: 16 Mar 91 16:49:44 GMT
References: <1991Mar8.011318.28717@mathcs.sjsu.edu> <wbqJ5Sm00Wg1M8hdpI@andrew.cmu.edu> <1991Mar12.152048.2065@persoft.com>
Reply-To: stephenc@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Stephen Chung)
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In article <wbqJ5Sm00Wg1M8hdpI@andrew.cmu.edu> 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.

I have a Gateway 25MHz 386 and there is *ABSOLUTELY NOTHING* that I
am not satisfied with.  It did not give me any problems at all.  From
what I heard, the favorable/unfavorable ratio (Internet, Magazines etc.)
is about 50:1.  Yes, I live in NYC, and all the people I know who have
Gateways like it very much.  I have never heard of Gateway computers
being faulty right out of the box, at least so far.  I suppose that
the students in CMU are not using computers in the right way?

- Stephen