We had a 1.5 Ghz. Gateway show up as a donation to be checked out at the charity where I work.
After 5 minutes our jaws had returned to normal positions and we'd finished doing the "We are not worthy" routine an all fours in front of it, we started to check it out.
OK for those who've never owned a Gateway PC, they are about as near to a Macintosh a PC could ever hope to become. Those of you who own Gateway PCs or Gateway Amigas (do we have any millionaires on here??) will be nodding when I harp on about the quality.... they are the Alfa Romeos of PCs, everything else is just Ford.
First thing revealed was that someone had stripped out the 2 Gigs of memory so we had to run it at onl 256 Megs.
All the drive bays are locked in place with fancy lever locking mechanisms, no screws, so swapping a Hard Drive or DVD Writer takes about 10 seconds.
It came with manuals, all the CDs and DVDs, etc. so someone was more than generous.
It is the most expensive PC donations we've had so far.
My assistant had never been in the precence of Gateway PC before and was drolling more and more as the specs and chipsets came up.... yes it does beat the one above hands down!
His comments of, "It's a bit over the top isn't it..... I mean who needs two 54 Speed DVD writers??"
Fortunately I have a Gateway at home, unfortunately my son has commandeered it for his gaming use, I have to make use of a mere mortal PC.
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