Well, this is interesting: Acer is going to buy Gateway for $710 million, making it the third largest PC maker in the world.
Acer said the merger would create a company with more than $15bn in sales and 20mn PCs shipped per year, adding it would keep the Gateway brand in the US.
Back when I used to buy those huge Computer Shopper magazine issues religiously (for fun!), Gateway 2000 was the cat’s meow. I wanted to get a computer delivered in a cow-patterned box, but I had sunk my money into a beige box from a local computer shop and could only afford to upgrade what I had. [Sidebar: the guy who sold me that computer later went to jail for selling computers with illegally imported power supplies not certified by the Canadian Standards Association. Yikes.]