Sad day (Score 1)

I would have been much more excited to hear Gateway was buying and not being bought out. I dealt with Gateway pcs at a university in bulk years ago and thought the package was really presented nice and worked great. I bought and advised folks to buy Gateway. Slowly and sadly I've watched the product become so cheaply presented (loss of gateway stores, burn your own restore disks! and hardly any media (cds) packaged with new stations) that the next station I'd get is HP. I have not seen a lot of Acer and well that just scares me a company that is not really strong in the US is adding Gateway like an accessory. Boooo! Nice knowing you Gateway. Take care in your assimilation.