Gateway Parts

Anyone that has owned (or owns) a Gateway computer...particularly a laptop?

But if you own a desktop, feel free to chime in, too. Found one at a good price and am considering a purchase, but I've never purchased that brand before. If you have, are they a solid choice...or would I have to buy an extra one for spare parts? :) Please, if you think they suck, fine, but if you're going to bother to answer, tell me WHY you think they do. What problems you've had. Dont just throw two words together for points. Thanks to all in advance.

Public Comments

1. Gateway makes a good product so I would consider buying one. The value, you say you found a good price, depends on what you are getting for the money. I paid about $1.2K for my Dell laptop and got 1G ram and have another slot for more, a high speed hard drive, an ATA video card with it's own memory, and a high speed CPU. It came with XP Media Edition and I can burn CDs and DVDs with it. I may have been able to get a little bit better price but Dell also carried the credit at 0% for one year. Now if you are looking at a $500 laptop and it has 256KRam, no memory on the video card, under 1G CPU, a small slow hard drive, only a CD player, only 2 USB ports, then the machine is overpriced. Follow?