I thought Gateway stopped selling computers.

Even worse, cant believe they sell computers with 64gig emmc still
www.walmart.com

Gateway 11.6" 2-in-1 Convertible Notebook, HD, Intel® Celeron®, Dual Core, 4GB Memory 64GB Storage, Mini HDMI, Cortana, 1.0MP Webcam, Windows 10 S, Microsoft 365 Personal 1-Year Included, Black - Walmart.com

Buy Gateway 11.6" 2-in-1 Convertible Notebook, HD, Intel® Celeron®, Dual Core, 4GB Memory 64GB Storage, Mini HDMI, Cortana, 1.0MP Webcam, Windows 10 S, Microsoft 365 Personal 1-Year Included, Black at Walmart.com
www.walmart.com
 
I remember an article on BleepingComputer that announced the reintroduction of the Gateway brand exclusively through Walmart not too terribly long ago. I guess they're now here.
 
Looks like a real winner. I can't wait until I start getting these in my shop. I give it 3 weeks. Thankfully MOST of my clients don't buy garbage like this, but there's always some idiot who does.
 
Markverhyden said:
You can still get Crapard Bells across the pond. Another winning brand that Acer picked up.
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I think they died here in the UK too, I havent seen one in a very long time and cant find any new for sale. Maybe they are still sold in mainland Europe
 
They died, were sold, changed hands a few times and they've come back to market a couple of times in the last few years.
 
My savior in the old days, and my first computer. I still remember how excited I was to see that cow box. Real and unlimited tech support in the beginning...my sister and I have often joked that we were trained by Gateway.
 
I am very close friends with the founder of Gateway - Ted Waitt. He is one of the nicest, most honorable persons you could ever meet. I taught a calculus class where he was a student. When I had two computer repair stores in Omaha, NE in the 90s he had come down numerous times to visit us. We just became friends from there. In about 2001 I was in Sioux City, IA and met him for lunch. During lunch he told me that he had recently went public with Gateway. He said the shareholders were wanting him to move manufacturing and assembly overseas. He did not want to do that. He had I think 4 plants in the U.S. where they were built. He hated to have to even buy components from overseas. About a couple of years later I saw in the trade journals that he sold his controlling interest in Gateway.

He was very proud of the American image with farms and cows on the boxes. He grew up on a farm in Sioux City. He started the business on his Dad's farm around the mid 80s.

They were some of the best built computer built during that time. Now - not so much.
 
@Sky-Knight

It's not that companies are publicly traded, per se, it's the pernicious management philosophy that's come on to the scene over the last 50 years and now reached a ridiculous zenith. "Shareholder value" is put above and beyond any other consideration, and that virtually always drives very bad decision-making for the long term.

There was a time when shareholder value was but one of the considerations, and there is a movement, without enough traction, to get us back to the period when what is now called "stakeholder value" was the primary consideration. And stakeholders include the employees, the communities in which the business operates, and the long term goals for the business, among other things. It's the antithesis of the "What have you done for me lately?," and, "Are we going to meet our quarterlies?," kind of thinking.

I own plenty of stock, but I don't want just what a company can do for me, the stockholder, to be the biggest thing they think about. Their own employees should come first and, when they do, generally a lot of other stuff falls into place, because happy and loyal employees actually want to work for their employers.

But you are right in that as things are now, IPOs are very often the beginning of the end for companies. And often the original owners bail not long after they go public because they can no longer have the kind of management of what had been "my company" that they're used to.
 
@britechguy Yeah you're probably right, it's the loss of the original leadership and vision that kills the place, not the IPO itself.

Even if companies stay privately held, they tend to get passed down through the family. The 2nd generation usually does OK, but the third is often a train wreck for all of the same reasons. Either time has created a new world where the original vision doesn't quite work anymore, or the blind drive for numeric profit of the moment at the expense of all else.

Either way, it's the same crater.
 
Do they have still have cows on the boxes we had an outlet here in North Vancouver but it did not last long.
In the good old days of the 486's a friend said if I can afford a 386 40 then that will do me he could not envisage needing anything else how mindsets change
 
River Valley Computer said:
I am very close friends with the founder of Gateway - Ted Waitt. He is one of the nicest, most honorable persons you could ever meet. I taught a calculus class where he was a student. When I had two computer repair stores in Omaha, NE in the 90s he had come down numerous times to visit us. We just became friends from there.
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Lived in Bellevue/ Omaha from 1992-2011...

What computer stores were you referring to, just out of curiosity?
 
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