[comp.sys.ibm.pc] Gateway2000 - opinions ?

fs@uwasa.fi (Filip Sawicki LAKE) (07/17/90)

Is anybody around here an owner of a Gateway2000 computer? Do you have
any bad experience with it? Any serious troubles, except for some
NEC-3D monitors? Any crashes?

Gateway2000 computers seem to be really cheap... too chip. I'd like
to buy one, but I certainly don't want to have any big troubles. And
this computers haven't been put, as far as I know, into PC Magazine
endurance test -- so you're my last chance.

And what about compatibility? Do MS-Windows and Unix/Xenix/XWindows
run smoothly? TSRs and Borland Turbo's too? MS and non-MS mice? Other
keyboards (esp. Northgate)?

Please answer by e-mail: fs@uwasa.fi

Thanks in advance

fi.

edwards@udder.macc.wisc.edu (Mark Edwards) (07/18/90)

In article <90198.222303RFM@psuvm.psu.edu> RFM@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
>contains a review of low-cost 386sx's. The GW2000 gets an "honorable
>mention" but not Editors Choice. Kinda picky. As I recall, their
>gripe was with the AT-size box as compared to the new. small-footprint

 I love mine. I got it back in January. I wanted a machine that was expandable.
I have both floppies, two half height harddrives, room for either a 
internal DAT or CD drive, and room to add more cards. With the smaller 
footprints somethings gotta give. The GATEWAY 2000 SX was written up in
January (or Febuary) in PC Magazine, also was compared in a January issue
of InfoWorld.

 My only compliant? I wish I had two of'em.

mark
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