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Gateway makes bid for rival eMachines
(old news - 09:43AM Friday Jan 30 2004)
By John G. Spooner - Staff Writer, CNET News.com

Gateway plans to acquire rival eMachines in a bid to regain its footing in the PC game and broaden the distribution of its Gateway-branded consumer electronics devices at retail.

The Poway, Calif., company plans to purchase privately held eMachines for $30 million in cash and 50 million shares of stock. The companies' combined PC businesses would constitute the third-largest PC manufacturer in the United States, Gateway said, and rank it eighth in the world. The deal is subject to regulatory approval, and is expected to close in six to eight weeks.

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that sucks

Just when eMachines was making a new name for itself after a complete overhaul two years ago, they sold out to Gateway. I just bought their M6805 notebook (eMachines) and its incredible, outperforming high end notebooks costing $1000.00 more. I will be very dissapointed if I have to deal with Gateway now on any tech or customer support issues.
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permalink · 2004-01-30 14:56:20 · Reply to this

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Just when the OEM was getting good...

Shitway wants to buy them out and keep peddling their crap.

What do these @#$%ing OEMs have so against bringing out A64 laptops? seriously?

I'm sick of this BS... I want one of those A64 laptops badly, and am quite impressed with the quality of eMachines as of late... it would be a sin right now if Gateway bought them now... because I know that that will take one of the few OEMs out in the market right now that are sold in retail stores, and also provide AMD in their high-end market as well. I want more AMD, damn it!
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Re: Just when the OEM was getting good...

said by C0deZer0 See Profile:
What do these @#$%ing OEMs have so against bringing out A64 laptops? seriously?
Intel offers too many incentives such as this recent one.

Gateway and eMachines really seem to complement one another. One's a direct seller and the other is a retail seller. One is shifting towards consumer electronics and the other is making value priced PCs. eMachines is starting to take quite a bit of shelf space at Wal-Mart, Best Buy, etc. Hopefully, they won't drop AMD the way Gateway did in '99.
permalink · 2004-01-30 18:18:10 · Print · Reply to this

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Re: Just when the OEM was getting good...

said by BA See Profile:
Hopefully, they won't drop AMD the way Gateway did in '99.
I just put my third e-machine in my office.. they are ALL p4's. and run rock solid. I would never buy a gateway. (of course an e-machine would not suit my personal computing needs)but I must say, there is a lot of "bang for the buck"
sorry to hear the gateway news.....another blow to the "off the shelf" consumer.
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Intel offers too many incentives such as this recent one.
And it's moves like this that makes me think that the antitrust laws on this country are really farked.

A software company gets the primary OS market share, and the dept. of justice is on their ass and doing itemized audits.

A processor company pulls schemes to force companies into contracts that won't let them buy processors from competing manufacturers, and it's somehow still "business as usual."

I'm sorry, but I hate the current x86 laptop scene. it's too f*cking bland, and outside of the wonder that is eMachines' current A64 laptop, every laptop in the under-$2k market sucked horribly (in some form of spec or another). The specs on the a64 laptop currently there (even if you were to use any other processor) simply could not have been duplicated previously except in machines costing almost $3000 (and in some cases, a comparably equipped Intel laptop is still above that).

AMD finally gets an opportunity to give the market a kick in the pants, and ShitGateway wants to cut off their balls entry by buying out the only company with the guts to put them out.
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Re: Just when the OEM was getting good...

capitalism in action.

The bad rise to the top while the innocent are jolly farked from the back.
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Re: Just when the OEM was getting good...

My vote was that Gateway has a real personal problem with AMD... probably some bad blood with the two.

Hmm, perhaps we should schedule a BBQ session and slaughter their cow for the meal.
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