Gateway PCs! They re Gateways of hell!
by Jermaine Morgan · 12/18/2007 (6:41 pm) · 24 comments
Hello everyone this is another little customer announcement. Hopefully you read my last post about 3DGS, which was a total ripoff.
Lately I been searching for a new laptop. With a decent graphic card. Well last monday I bought a Gateway Laptop. It was a newer model. Took it home turned it on to here a high pitch wine coming from the computer, then getting the "blue screen of death." Of course I returned it.
I went to a different retailer
Today I tried a again I got nice Desktop computer for about $1100 came with a GeForce 8600. I let the install the anti virus, and anti spyware software along with a printer and everything. The guy told me that it would take 2 hours. Sooooooooooooo.....................
I go get something to eat, happy.
Then...................................
''''''''Half of hour later''''''''''''''''''''
I was eating french fries and crabcakes when my phone rings. The guy doing service on my PC calls and tells me that the PC is "Dead Out of The Box." After nearly choking off my french fry. I return to the store to get a new computer, which will not be a Gateway at all.
Point is
DO NOT GET A GATEWAY.
PS..
I chose not to name the retailers that I got these PC's from. But it is pretty easy to guess.
2 Very popular Technology/Electronic stores in this country.
Gateways suck do not waste your money on these crappy machines.
Lately I been searching for a new laptop. With a decent graphic card. Well last monday I bought a Gateway Laptop. It was a newer model. Took it home turned it on to here a high pitch wine coming from the computer, then getting the "blue screen of death." Of course I returned it.
I went to a different retailer
Today I tried a again I got nice Desktop computer for about $1100 came with a GeForce 8600. I let the install the anti virus, and anti spyware software along with a printer and everything. The guy told me that it would take 2 hours. Sooooooooooooo.....................
I go get something to eat, happy.
Then...................................
''''''''Half of hour later''''''''''''''''''''
I was eating french fries and crabcakes when my phone rings. The guy doing service on my PC calls and tells me that the PC is "Dead Out of The Box." After nearly choking off my french fry. I return to the store to get a new computer, which will not be a Gateway at all.
Point is
DO NOT GET A GATEWAY.
PS..
I chose not to name the retailers that I got these PC's from. But it is pretty easy to guess.
2 Very popular Technology/Electronic stores in this country.
Gateways suck do not waste your money on these crappy machines.
About the author
#22
You CAN build a barebones laptop. I have an ASUS that I put the cheapest CPU I could get at the time in it and put a 60GB HD in it with 1GB ram. I purposely bought the higher end 6600 Geforce (at the time it was higher end), but put the slower CPU in it. It runs TGE and Morrowind like a champ.
I also built a barebones Shuttle computer. I also went with a lower powered CPU in it so it will dissipate less heat. It is very quiet and the fans hardly turn at all to keep it cool. It can run several instances of TGE with no issues. It is a dual cpu AMD.
BTW, Shuttle and XFX have excellent customer support and do NOT question my diagnosis when I have had problems. I have had to replace one XFX for a different system and had to replace the MB on my Shuttle. Both were replaced with no runaround.
12/23/2007 (11:28 pm)
Pesto126,You CAN build a barebones laptop. I have an ASUS that I put the cheapest CPU I could get at the time in it and put a 60GB HD in it with 1GB ram. I purposely bought the higher end 6600 Geforce (at the time it was higher end), but put the slower CPU in it. It runs TGE and Morrowind like a champ.
I also built a barebones Shuttle computer. I also went with a lower powered CPU in it so it will dissipate less heat. It is very quiet and the fans hardly turn at all to keep it cool. It can run several instances of TGE with no issues. It is a dual cpu AMD.
BTW, Shuttle and XFX have excellent customer support and do NOT question my diagnosis when I have had problems. I have had to replace one XFX for a different system and had to replace the MB on my Shuttle. Both were replaced with no runaround.
#23
12/30/2007 (12:20 pm)
Frank.. can you point me in the direction of finding parts to build one... I'm certainly interested in that! thx. 
#24
12/31/2007 (12:40 pm)
Amen man. I am going on my 3rd motherboard with this one. Oh don't get me wrong, when it works, it works really nice, when it works grrrr.
Torque Owner Pesto126