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RE: Great! Now here is my prediction
I agree, unless...

If Gateway wants to achieve its old stature next to Dell, then it needs to stop trying to be something its not. I own several Gateway PC's from when they were Gateway 2000, and at that time they rocked. Here's what they really need to do:

1) Drop all their non-PC related goods, or provide them only minimally. They'll never survive as a Consumer-Electronics company.

2) Upgrade their tech support. They use to have excellent tech support, but that went down the tubes. Hire Americans, and keep them in the US! Train them, Pay them Well, and Do your best to serve the customer. You'll find that you'll (a) start gaining & keeping more customers, and (b) start growing in profits once again.

3) Be what you are! Gateway is a PC business. It will always be a PC business in the mind of the consumer. Do what you do, do it well, and do nothing else. Nothing else will makes any company profitable.

4) Support more than strictly Intel. Get AMD, Transmeta, and other chip companies. Offer Linux, Corel Office, and alternatives to Microsoft as well! You'll find this is a part of the PC market not heavily touched that is just looking for a company to target it.

5) Stop trying to compete with the bottom line PC crap. HP/Compaq has crap PC's that are just a bit better than Packard Bells, Tandy's, and NEC's. eMachines has done a pretty good job, but they are just better supported low-end crap stuff. All these companies rely on heavy turn-over of their equipment to survive. (HP won't survive the PC business much longer. It's printers, scanners, and other stuff is what keeps them good.)

Gateway use to be about quality products. That's why I bought Gateway! That's why my Pentium II 233 is still running and plays DVD's just fine! If Gateway is to survive, then they need to return to making quality products. They need to return to making the best of the best.

p.s. I will be sending a copy of this to Gateway's CEO TW.
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Some one is goning to make some big $$$$  boatelc | 01/30/04
Could've sworn  AbsolutelyNot | 01/30/04
RE: Great! Now here is my prediction  bm_witness@... | 02/02/04
2 X junk =  skeptic tank | 01/30/04
bad ideea  dg mh | 01/30/04
Cow Piles  Domb2 | 01/30/04
Sad news  cameronra@... | 01/30/04
The way I see it is.  Arrg | 01/30/04
Dell= Junk  ITGuy04 | 01/30/04
wasnt always so  doh123 | 01/30/04
and what's not junk?  dg mh | 01/30/04
OK. Not Apple  frgough@... | 01/30/04
it's true  ITGuy04 | 01/30/04
IBM does not make PC's  ShadeTree | 01/30/04
Hecho En Mexico  ITGuy04 | 01/30/04
IBM does not make PC's  ShadeTree | 01/30/04
I won't say it.  Immanuel Tranz-Mischen | 01/31/04
So who do you suggest?  Arrg | 01/30/04
Laptops  ITGuy04 | 01/30/04
Yes I like IBM too  Arrg | 01/30/04
Funny..  Patrick Jones | 01/30/04
You get what you pay for  voska | 01/30/04
Have you seen the Dell version of the eMachine?  AbsolutelyNot | 01/30/04
old ones  lengua99 | 02/01/04
Isn't this kinda like...  BitTwiddler | 01/30/04
Close..  ITGuy04 | 01/30/04
An expencive effort with little return.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 01/30/04
Mistake for Gateway  drichards1953 | 02/01/04
Visionaries Web Site  Da_Bobcee | 01/30/04
Message has been deleted.  rwk006@... | 01/30/04
Hmm - All Junk?  jwaggoner | 01/30/04
Dell should..  ITGuy04 | 01/30/04
if you don't roll your own Dell is the way 2 go  prong@... | 01/30/04
Not bad  toadlife | 01/30/04
not typical experience  ITGuy04 | 01/30/04
Sounded typical to me.  ac2_z | 01/30/04
Ah, but you are getting a different Dell  AbsolutelyNot | 01/30/04
More accurate is the Dim 2400 is a POS  ac2_z | 01/30/04
Funny Stuff  ShadeTree | 01/30/04
STOP using common sense!!!  No_Ax_to_Grind | 01/30/04
home built  toadlife | 01/30/04
Not So!  ShadeTree | 01/30/04
Puhleeze  ITGuy04 | 01/30/04
Dream on  ShadeTree | 01/30/04
http://www.tomshardware.com/  Arrg | 01/30/04
Doesn't wash!  ShadeTree | 01/30/04
My friend  Arrg | 01/30/04
Have some common sense man  voska | 01/30/04
Advantages to home built.  ac2_z | 01/30/04
Gateway has used Inted Motherboards in High End  drichards1953 | 02/01/04
You missed the point  voska | 01/30/04
If that were the case  ITGuy04 | 01/30/04
Try Again  ShadeTree | 01/30/04
Bzzt, wrong answer  ITGuy04 | 01/30/04
ya I remeber when compaq  Arrg | 01/30/04
ShadeTree=FUDtree  ITGuy04 | 01/30/04
There are some exceptions  ShadeTree | 01/30/04
So, you work for:  ITGuy04 | 01/30/04
what on the box vrs. whats in the box  nite_w0lf | 01/30/04
They all do it  lengua99 | 02/01/04
Dells are Great  TechinMN | 01/30/04
I'll second Dell is junk  beafeater | 02/01/04
eMachines are pretty good  usapride | 02/01/04

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