I'm pretty sure there's more than enough room in this rant for the both of us.
Rant all you want, I'll rant more!
I have you bookmarked so I can read interesting things like this. Good luck with your Gateway but do let me suggest if you are willing Tiger Direct can sell you all the pieces you need for whatever you want, and their service is terrific. I am not bird dogging for them, but I do like to build my own box once in a while. At least then I don't have to pay the M$ tax! Oh had a Gateway laptop for years and gave it away still running. If you choose to go that way you should come out OK.
Go to Panera Bread. They have free wi-fi there, too. The food is quite a bit better, and healthier, than all that fried and preprocessed crap that McDonald's dishes out,...
And they don't seem to mind if I sit there for 30 minutes......
Hackers of the world, unite!