Comments on: Gateway announces merger with eMachines, 1/30/2004 https://dfarq.homeip.net/gateway-announces-merger-with-emachines-1-30-2004/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=gateway-announces-merger-with-emachines-1-30-2004 David L. Farquhar on technology old and new, computer security, and more Sun, 01 Feb 2026 22:56:45 +0000 hourly 1 By: MarineX21 https://dfarq.homeip.net/gateway-announces-merger-with-emachines-1-30-2004/#comment-57481 Sun, 01 Feb 2026 22:56:45 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=36725#comment-57481 There was a Gateway experience store in South St. Louis county near South County Mall as well. I spent a lot of time in that store before ultimately ordering a custom built system online…the price tag on that was $5,400. What an experience! ?

]]> By: Steve Aubrey https://dfarq.homeip.net/gateway-announces-merger-with-emachines-1-30-2004/#comment-57480 Sat, 31 Jan 2026 03:59:08 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=36725#comment-57480 Boxes with cow spots 🙂

]]> By: Jon https://dfarq.homeip.net/gateway-announces-merger-with-emachines-1-30-2004/#comment-57479 Fri, 30 Jan 2026 09:26:18 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=36725#comment-57479 My first PC in 1996 was a Gateway. At the time, I think I still found the idea of a computer from a “brand” reassuring (I was upgrading from an Amiga).

By the time it came to upgrade again a few years later, I bought a machine from a cheap generic clone-builder. I’d realised this was just a commodity product and the brand offered no added value.

All PC manufacturers eventually faced the problem that they were selling a low margin commodity product. How do you differentiate yourself when the competing machines are essentially identical assemblages of off-the-shelf parts?

]]> By: neo https://dfarq.homeip.net/gateway-announces-merger-with-emachines-1-30-2004/#comment-56753 Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:18:43 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=36725#comment-56753 i remember actual Gateway brick and mortar store in rockford il

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