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eMachines / Gateway Question
Just out of curiosity does Gateway own eMachines or vice-versa? I just purchased an eMachine because I got a good deal on it plus it had Windows XP on it. When I unpacked it there was a one year Gateway warranty with it. TIA |
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kraut wrote:
Just out of curiosity does Gateway own eMachines or vice-versa? I just purchased an eMachine because I got a good deal on it plus it had Windows XP on it. When I unpacked it there was a one year Gateway warranty with it. TIA Question is who owns Gateway: http://www.crn.com/it-channel/201804110 what restructuring is involved and what are states of bankruptcy. When I bought my last GW 2 years ago, it was almost like buying a generic machine as far as some of the literature went. |
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On Tue, 07 Apr 2009 20:19:07 -0400, Frank
wrote: kraut wrote: Just out of curiosity does Gateway own eMachines or vice-versa? I just purchased an eMachine because I got a good deal on it plus it had Windows XP on it. When I unpacked it there was a one year Gateway warranty with it. TIA Question is who owns Gateway: http://www.crn.com/it-channel/201804110 what restructuring is involved and what are states of bankruptcy. When I bought my last GW 2 years ago, it was almost like buying a generic machine as far as some of the literature went. Yes well on this eMachine that had the 1 year Gateway warranty there is an C:\acer directory with a bunch of stuff I have not really checked out yet so who know who owns what!! Thanks for the reply. |
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kraut wrote:
Just out of curiosity does Gateway own eMachines or vice-versa? I just purchased an eMachine because I got a good deal on it plus it had Windows XP on it. When I unpacked it there was a one year Gateway warranty with it. TIA At this time, none of the above. Acer bought eGateMachines a while back, lock stock and barrel. Now Acer owns both the Gateway and the emachines brand names. IIRC, Gateway got the corporate upper hand when it came together with eMachines, but many of the eMachines execs remains. Prior to acquisition by Acer, the Gateway boxes used good quality Intel-designed and branded motherboards in the boxes with Intel CPUs, much like they did going way back to Pentium II days. The recent eMachines used either DFI or Intel motherboards, depending on model, a drastic improvement from the junk inside their earlier computers, prior to Pentium 4. But the power supplies were made by Bestec, a paragon of low quality. When Bestec PSUs fail, they generally take out the motherboard, too. I tossed away some perfectly good eMachines black cases because motherboards with an eMachines BIOS are in such short supply. It made no sense at all to pay a premium for a replacement motherboard... Ben Myers |
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On Apr 7, 11:37*pm, Ben Myers wrote:
kraut wrote: Just out of curiosity does Gateway own eMachines or vice-versa? I just purchased an eMachine because I got a good deal on it plus it had Windows XP on it. *When I unpacked it there was a one year Gateway warranty with it. TIA At this time, none of the above. *Acer bought eGateMachines a while back, lock stock and barrel. *Now Acer owns both the Gateway and the emachines brand names. IIRC, Gateway got the corporate upper hand when it came together with eMachines, but many of the eMachines execs remains. Prior to acquisition by Acer, the Gateway boxes used good quality Intel-designed and branded motherboards in the boxes with Intel CPUs, much like they did going way back to Pentium II days. *The recent eMachines used either DFI or Intel motherboards, depending on model, a drastic improvement from the junk inside their earlier computers, prior to Pentium 4. *But the power supplies were made by Bestec, a paragon of low quality. *When Bestec PSUs fail, they generally take out the motherboard, too. *I tossed away some perfectly good eMachines black cases because motherboards with an eMachines BIOS are in such short supply. *It made no sense at all to pay a premium for a replacement motherboard... Ben Myers For those of us that are just users and not computer persons, this stuff gets confusing. I went through warranty issue last year in that I had bought computer at Comp USA and found extended warranty was with them and not GW but I was dealing with 2 companies undergoing restructuring. Fortunately Comp USA replaced problem keyboard. |
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Frank wrote:
On Apr 7, 11:37 pm, Ben Myers wrote: kraut wrote: Just out of curiosity does Gateway own eMachines or vice-versa? I just purchased an eMachine because I got a good deal on it plus it had Windows XP on it. When I unpacked it there was a one year Gateway warranty with it. TIA At this time, none of the above. Acer bought eGateMachines a while back, lock stock and barrel. Now Acer owns both the Gateway and the emachines brand names. IIRC, Gateway got the corporate upper hand when it came together with eMachines, but many of the eMachines execs remains. Prior to acquisition by Acer, the Gateway boxes used good quality Intel-designed and branded motherboards in the boxes with Intel CPUs, much like they did going way back to Pentium II days. The recent eMachines used either DFI or Intel motherboards, depending on model, a drastic improvement from the junk inside their earlier computers, prior to Pentium 4. But the power supplies were made by Bestec, a paragon of low quality. When Bestec PSUs fail, they generally take out the motherboard, too. I tossed away some perfectly good eMachines black cases because motherboards with an eMachines BIOS are in such short supply. It made no sense at all to pay a premium for a replacement motherboard... Ben Myers For those of us that are just users and not computer persons, this stuff gets confusing. I went through warranty issue last year in that I had bought computer at Comp USA and found extended warranty was with them and not GW but I was dealing with 2 companies undergoing restructuring. Fortunately Comp USA replaced problem keyboard. ALWAYS important to ask who is providing any service or replacement parts under warranty and for how long. For example, I do not know the answer, but who provides warranty parts and service for a Dell system bought at WAL*MART ??? Also, it generally makes no sense at all to buy an extended warranty on a desktop system. Depending on who actually does the warranty work, it may not be a good idea to get an extended warranty on a laptop. A warranty is no better than the financial well-being of the company providing it... Ben Myers |
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Ben Myers wrote:
Frank wrote: On Apr 7, 11:37 pm, Ben Myers wrote: kraut wrote: Just out of curiosity does Gateway own eMachines or vice-versa? I just purchased an eMachine because I got a good deal on it plus it had Windows XP on it. When I unpacked it there was a one year Gateway warranty with it. TIA At this time, none of the above. Acer bought eGateMachines a while back, lock stock and barrel. Now Acer owns both the Gateway and the emachines brand names. IIRC, Gateway got the corporate upper hand when it came together with eMachines, but many of the eMachines execs remains. Prior to acquisition by Acer, the Gateway boxes used good quality Intel-designed and branded motherboards in the boxes with Intel CPUs, much like they did going way back to Pentium II days. The recent eMachines used either DFI or Intel motherboards, depending on model, a drastic improvement from the junk inside their earlier computers, prior to Pentium 4. But the power supplies were made by Bestec, a paragon of low quality. When Bestec PSUs fail, they generally take out the motherboard, too. I tossed away some perfectly good eMachines black cases because motherboards with an eMachines BIOS are in such short supply. It made no sense at all to pay a premium for a replacement motherboard... Ben Myers For those of us that are just users and not computer persons, this stuff gets confusing. I went through warranty issue last year in that I had bought computer at Comp USA and found extended warranty was with them and not GW but I was dealing with 2 companies undergoing restructuring. Fortunately Comp USA replaced problem keyboard. ALWAYS important to ask who is providing any service or replacement parts under warranty and for how long. For example, I do not know the answer, but who provides warranty parts and service for a Dell system bought at WAL*MART ??? Also, it generally makes no sense at all to buy an extended warranty on a desktop system. Depending on who actually does the warranty work, it may not be a good idea to get an extended warranty on a laptop. A warranty is no better than the financial well-being of the company providing it... Ben Myers Yes, all previous computers were bought directly from GW and I had extended warranties that were not that expensive. I did not realize this in buying from Comp USA. Years ago I had one GW that was a real lemon and even got a new monitor a month before the extended warranty expired. I wish I could have collected the frequent flier miles on that computer. That was over a dozen years ago but in today's climate, I would not buy an extended warranty. |
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