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Gateway Completes eMachines Acquisition
ryanjensen writes "Gateway just completed its $289.5 million deal to acquire Irvine, CA-based eMachines Thursday according to News.com. From the article: 'Many analysts believe that Gateway ultimately will abandon some or all of its namesake stores in favor of selling products at third-party retailers. However, they expect the company to continue selling Gateway-brand products, including PCs and consumer electronics, directly to its customers.'"
...will be called e-Cows, now with twice as much ugly.
Reminds me of those 1980's shaver commercials gone bad - "I liked it so much I bought th ecompany".
A company I used to work for bought one eMachine to see if we wanted to deploy them throughout the organization. They were horrible. came deliverred with the ram unseated so it wouldn't even boot out of the box.
After using just one eMachine, I have no idea what someone would do with the entire company.
I only came here to do two things; kick some ass, and drink some beer...looks like we're almost out of beer.
I love the packaging with the cow motif
I could blame Microsoft for this one, but the horrid restore-menu-architecture was the source of all my anguish.
I love the packaging with the cow motif
I love the packaging with the cow motif
For some reason I'm not blaming the software for this problem.
The (thankfuly few) Gateways that I have had to deal with for the most part required you get replacement parts from gateway because they tried to play the, "hey, only Gateway parts fit in here" such as the odd sized floppy for example, or the misaligned screwholes,
I also rememebr some of the "pizza box" models where it was impractically difficult just to get the case open. Some of those things would have cut you fingertips off trying to slide the top off too fast.
I was almost expecting a hole for you to put your cigars in.
As far as the cow box, its not nearly as fun as the real thing. They dont tip over, you cant eat em, and you cant even grow shrooms on em.
Just for the record, they explode quite nicely when an m-80 is shoved into their rectum.
and, i half expected them to come with a free NASCAR sticker.
"the inner machinations of my mind, are an enigma"
-patrick star
Actually, it was $189.5 million with the mail-in rebate...
And what better motivation to get your work done then knowing yur cluster could blow up in your face at any time.
just heard the entire universe yawn??? One marginal company swallowing another seems like some kind of new low for tech sector news.
Bad Chick-fil-a joke.
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The answer, my friend, lies with today's Penny Arcade comic...
- c -
Short answer: Yes.
Long answer: Yes.
CT
Now I can get all my shitbox PCs from one source.