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Gateway Completes eMachines Acquisition

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the bovine-inspired-machines dept.

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.'"

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  1. eMachines - a good thing. by cskaryd · · Score: 5, Informative

    I've bought 6 of these things for my parents, inlaws, and friends. They're been great. My father has 3 at his small food processing business, I gave one to my inlaws, one to a friend and have one running my mail server.

    Aside from the last one, each is essentially used for word processing, email, and web. And they do that well. Each has been in use for at least 2 years, and I've only had to perform one hardware related task on any one of them. (To be fair, my father jammed a screwdriver in the floppy drive to help get the disk out. Argh.)

    They've been great machines for the non-computationally-intensive tasks that these people use them for.

    I'm 6 for 6 and will continue recommend these machines for the casual user.