OT: redhat OT: Gateway

[Walter Vaughan]

Bill Vermillion wrote:
  > Have you kept up with the sales of the lower priced machines this
> year.  Gateway was having problem and have closed all their retail
> stores.
> 
> And after that Gateway bought emachines.

Actually it's probably a huge plus for them. I just bought a Gateway 
laptop at BestBuy week & half ago. Wide screen model with glassy screen 
reflectance just like Apple's.

There are a whole lot more potential computer customers in a BestBuy 
store than in your typical Gateway store. Marketing law is if you are 
selling clothing, you want to be a mall with the *most* clothing stores.

I moved a demo filePro driven website to it as a backup for the SEMA 
show this year. Instead of running Xitami as the server I installed 
Apache 2.0. Wow, what a difference. I do know a year or two ago I 
couldn't get filePro windows native to play nice inside perl running 
inside Apache for Windows.

The laptop (Athlon 3000+) is dual headed, so I ran DV video to one XGA 
projector and ran the website on the built-in display.

To kick it up a notch, I went to the Verizon store in LasVegas and got 
the broadband wireless card, so I could run live.

Wow. It actually worked as advertised. Not as fast as a cable modem, but 
  dependable once I got it configured correctly. Acually "Google 
Desktop" played havoc with it, and once it was removed (GD) the card 
worked fine. I was able to remote desktop and run with almost no 
percived lag in the connection.

The Gateway version has a DVD burner. The next day or so I saw that they 
have a similar E-Machine version without the burner and probably a few 
other goodies for $879. Mine was $1099. Oh well. I wanted Firewire, 
built in 54Mhz wireless, and a DVD burner so I am not complaining.
--
Walter