Acer buyout offer of Gateway.
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One ---- compant buying another ---- company just gives a bigger ---- company.
id like to know whats under youre -'s.
Gacerway?
AcerGate? Nahh, that sounds like a conspiracy.
GatWaycer?
One steaming turd + another turd = a BIG turd.
AcerGate? Nahh, that sounds like a conspiracy.
GatWaycer?
One steaming turd + another turd = a BIG turd.
That's what I said...s
Aww, Acer's not THAT bad.
Packard Bell . . .THAT's bad.
But it's not like Dell makes the Bentley of PCs. HP is only half-decent stuff. All the big commercial rollers are pretty much disposable junk anymore.
I miss the days of the DEC Alphas, when computers were solid machines.
The early Gateways weren't badly built machines. I've had their early ATX tower cases go a decade with various transplants. US made steel boxes will do that for you.
Packard Bell . . .THAT's bad.
But it's not like Dell makes the Bentley of PCs. HP is only half-decent stuff. All the big commercial rollers are pretty much disposable junk anymore.
I miss the days of the DEC Alphas, when computers were solid machines.
The early Gateways weren't badly built machines. I've had their early ATX tower cases go a decade with various transplants. US made steel boxes will do that for you.
I was an FSE at DEC. Microvax II anybody? Even did PDP 8's and 11's. OVMS is still going strong.
DEC made some seriously kick-posterior machines. 64 bit before 64 bit was cool.
Made great widgets. Couldn't sell it though.
What ever happened to DEC? Acquired? Out of bidness? Just curious. . .
The DEC technologies were dissolved inside HP once the merger was complete. A good friend of mine was a Tru64 dyed-in the wool fan who sold and administered large SAN & server implementations for a VAR. Seeing things from the inside gained me fresh perspective on HP. HP lost the vision of the DEC technology. They never really brought much of DEC's goodies to market as HP was vested in the dead-end road of the Itanium 64 bit platform. While Itanium is a great architecture, it was far too expensive and far too late to market to make a difference.
DEC's dead end was Carly Fiorina, not Compaq. As if she didn't make enough money at the helm, upon her exit she received $21 million when she left HP she now has a book out: http://www.carlyfiorina.com/
HP is essentially a consumer-grade company now focused on printing (of course) and stuff you find in a retail store. HPUX is still at version 11 (how many years now??) and Proliant servers have been more problematic than the clones or Dell's I've used.
To me, Carly flushed HP down the drain and received $21 million as a parting gift. How nice. I was lucky to get a free lunch at my last job when I left. LOL
DEC's dead end was Carly Fiorina, not Compaq. As if she didn't make enough money at the helm, upon her exit she received $21 million when she left HP she now has a book out: http://www.carlyfiorina.com/
HP is essentially a consumer-grade company now focused on printing (of course) and stuff you find in a retail store. HPUX is still at version 11 (how many years now??) and Proliant servers have been more problematic than the clones or Dell's I've used.
To me, Carly flushed HP down the drain and received $21 million as a parting gift. How nice. I was lucky to get a free lunch at my last job when I left. LOL
If Acer buys Gateway, one of two things will happen. Gateway's s*** products and support will make Acer an inferior product, or Gateway will learn a thing or two about technology.
DEC StorageWorks and OVMS still exist. Asser and Gateless are both rubbish companies and deserve each other IMO.
Agreed. I have a friend at HP - the bragging rights were that they never laid off a soul. That was long ago. I tolerate their printers and the only reason I bought this HP PC was the bargain basement dealing. (BUT HP STILL has NOT sent my rebates yet....!) The kid's ACER was WAY cheaper.....but we shall see how long that thing lasts. I may go back to building my own!
All of my customers that have brought in Acer laptops have been pretty happy and I have seen very few problems (most are software related, or the computer was shipped with 512 megs of RAM with Windows Vista). Not sure how the Acers in Australia are, can't be much worse than the ones in America.
When it comes to desktops, build your own. Same price but better equipment.
When it comes to desktops, build your own. Same price but better equipment.
My HP Compaq d530 SFF is built like a tank. Gets turned on and off many times a day. Just doesn't get any beTter than that IMO.
The D530's were the best run of the business class PC for Compaq/HP IMO. The Evo 500's saw many CPU fans installed backwards, which meant that dust would accumulate on the CPU and eventually lead to thermal errors, and power supplies that tanked. The 510's were generally a cut above those 500's. The 530's have a long shelf life IMO.
dc7100 seem OK and now dc7600. dc7700 due soon. I sell a lot of these suckers!
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