> Gateway Performance (Gateway Performance)

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Product:	Gateway Performance
Date:	06/03/01 (447 review reads)
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Advantages: TOP NOTCH HIGH QUALITY COMPUTER, WITH TOP NOTCH HIGH QUALITY CUSTOMER SUPPORT

Disadvantages: NONE

Is this a good quality PC or is it just too expensive to what it actually offers?

Well let me tell you. I have a Gateway 2000 P5-120. It's only 120MHz and only 16mb of Ram with a 1.5GB hard drive. My father bought it 6 years ago for the whole family to use and at that time this was a high spec pc. But if you compare that to todays PC's then it's just plain trash. Well todays PC crash too many times and freeze up too many times. Take TIME for instance. My friend has had to change his TIME computer 3 times now because it keeps on breaking down. It's either the motherboard breaking or the power supply. It's a new story everytime that repeats itself on different victims.

But take Gateway for example. Our PC cost £1600 with 3 years warranty. And up to now it hasn't broken down once. It may be a bit slow but that's not the point. A PC has to be reliable and out of all the PC's i've used, i have found Gateway to be most reliable.

You may see ads on TV with low price PC's and a free digital camera with a free printer and scanner running on a fast pentium 3 with 20gb hard drive all for a low price of £699.99 and you may think "wow that's cheap" and your most probably going to buy that PC or a similar CHEAP PC. Well think about it. Why is it cheap? Ask the sales person. Ask him "why a Gateway PC running at 900MHz with 10GB hard drive and 64MB ram is more expensive than a TINy, TIME etc. computer that offers 1.5GHz with a 40GB hard drive and 128MB ram with a printer, scanner and digital camera?"
He'll most probably say "don't know" or might say that Gatewat are ripping you off only because of the commission he will get by selling that PC to you. He would never say "It's because Gateway have a high reputation in offering great quality PC's with a high quality customer support". If your going to get a PC and your on a budget then do yourself a fa
vour and save money to buy a more expensive PC that offers maybe lower quality performance but a high quality service.

Once my computer was infected by 7 viruses which I had under control until something went wrong, and I was only testing a software I made on them. My Desktop disappeared. The start button and evrything else disappeared and everytime I entered my password to log on, an error message came up (after logging on) saying that I have to reinstall Windows. Well with important documents and over 500 telephone numbers stored their was no chance of me doing that before they were saved. I managed to back up all by myself by getting pressing the windows button on my keyboard instead of logging on to access all my files and use my computer in a weird twisted way. Anyway after backing up i had no clue on formatting the computer and installing drivers and a hell of a lot of other things. Anyway for 5 straight long hours i was on the phone with Gateway technical support in america but it was a free phone number so i wasn't bothered. They talked be through everything. And when I had to wait for something long to load etc. we basically had a normal conversation about computers. They were very friendly, funny and most importantly helful. My computer is now running better than before.
That's what you call technical support.

Anyway to end this opinion, what I'm trying to say is that don't be fooled by companies trying tricking you into buying cheap computers that can't tell the difference from RAM and ROM...use your commen sense and buy a descent computer from one of the bigger and more powerful companies like Gateway that focus on the customer and not money.

Gateway website: www.gw2k.co.uk
(You can build your own PC their as well).

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