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Acer to Acquire Gateway for $710 million

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the bargain-shopping dept.

downix writes "On the way into work today, I heard about Acer buying Gateway. A bold move strategically, I wonder what consequences this will have for Gateway's employees and customers. As the purchase price was at $1.90 per share, those of us that purchased Gateway shares a few years ago are reminded just how far it has fallen."

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  1. Customers? by ThePolkapunk · · Score: 5, Funny

    "I wonder what consequences this will have for Gateway's employees and customers."

    Gateway has customers?!

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    1. Re:Customers? by eln · · Score: 5, Funny

      It's even funnier than that. According to the article, Acer only bought Gateway because Lenovo beat them to their first buyout target: Packard Bell!

      So apparently their goal was to buy the shittiest computer company in existence, but they were stymied in that goal so they bought the second shittiest. Personally, I was surprised to see that both Packard Bell and Gateway still existed, but I guess when the CEO of Acer finds extra change in his couch cushions, he has to spend it on something.

    2. Re:Customers? by heinousjay · · Score: 3, Funny

      My statement does not conflict with yours either.

      This is nice, it's like Slashdot only happy and sweet.

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    3. Re:Customers? by torrentami · · Score: 4, Funny

      I guess Wang Computers wasn't available.

  2. two wrongs don't make a right by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    what are they trying to do, build the suckiest computer evar?

    1. Re:two wrongs don't make a right by S.O.B. · · Score: 3, Funny

      Several years ago my mother bought a Gateway, and that was when I learned to use a PC. It was a P133, with 32MB RAM and a 1.5GB hard drive, and it ran Windows 95 (go ahead and laugh, I know I do when I think about it).


      More than several years ago (24 years ago to be exact) I worked on a brand new IBM XT with an Intel 8088 running at 4.77MHz, 128KB of RAM and a 10MB hard drive. It ran IBM DOS 2.1. In modern terms that would be a 0.00477 GHz processor with 0.000128GB of RAM and a 0.010GB hard drive. When I think about it I don't laugh...I cry.
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    2. Re:two wrongs don't make a right by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      You guys are so lucky! In my time this type of threads were considered LAME!

  3. Re:Gateway after sales service sucks by Waffle+Iron · · Score: 5, Funny

    I had one of their Ferrari 3200 laptops

    Ah yes, combining the prestige of a Taiwanese electronics OEM with the affordability and reliability of an Italian sports car manufacturer. It's a match made in heaven.