DO NOT buy a Gateway computer

[usetaboost]

I have a gateway. Hasn't worked wortha damn since I got it 4 yrs ago. Turned out the thing only had enough memory installed to run JUST windows xp 60 bucks later, it's bareable

 

[gs462]

I got the gateway 7811 from the FX series gaming its the best computer ive ever used

9 out of 10 times computers lock up due to user error, not due to hardware. Also you stated you purchased software online, if this is the case theres always an activation key thats given to you which is specifically for instances just as a hd reload. Also if this is so important for business you should have a backup computer. Its obvious your not very proficient with computers.

Threads like this annoy me because it ends up being the same misleading uneducated crap like "dont buy this brand, im tired of windows, i dont trust the internet, someone can hack me!"

I don't think the user (my wife ) broke the motherboard TWICE but thanks for your opinion, but in this case you're WRONG, Also who thinks they need a backup computer when the one you have is 7 MONTH OLD. Oh ya and I don't give a F**K what annoys you, so you can keep that bs to yourself, and out of MY THREAD. Have a nice day.

 

[klrv6]

I don't think the user (my wife ) broke the motherboard TWICE but thanks for your opinion, but in this case you're WRONG, Also who thinks they need a backup computer when the one you have is 7 MONTH OLD. Oh ya and I don't give a F**K what annoys you, so you can keep that bs to yourself, and out of MY THREAD. Have a nice day.

You need to backup any data on any computer, age doesn't matter. 20% of hard drives fail within the first 40 hours of use. I backup certain data before I shut down every time I use one of our laptops. Be careful thinking one brand is better than another from a data integrity perspective. They all source drives from someone else...unless it's a toshiba. The windows os is the most forgiving from the standpoint of surviving lost sectors on a drive. unix type oses don't get fragmented like windows, they can handle sector loss though. I remember running many freebsd installs that went belly up every time I lost an ibm deskstar drive.

Just some advice for anyone who doesn't backup data, at least get a cheap 00gb usb drive and copy important data to it every once in a while.

 

[gs462]

You need to backup any data on any computer, age doesn't matter. 20% of hard drives fail within the first 40 hours of use. I backup certain data before I shut down every time I use one of our laptops. Be careful thinking one brand is better than another from a data integrity perspective. They all source drives from someone else...unless it's a toshiba. The windows os is the most forgiving from the standpoint of surviving lost sectors on a drive. unix type oses don't get fragmented like windows, they can handle sector loss though. I remember running many freebsd installs that went belly up every time I lost an ibm deskstar drive.

Just some advice for anyone who doesn't backup data, at least get a cheap 00gb usb drive and copy important data to it every once in a while.

Thanks KLR, I have learned a valuable lesson with this whole situation and she now has a usb drive to save things on and will from now on transfer them daily onto our desktop too.

 

[ncmalko1]

Get an Apple Mac. I don't know how.. but they don't get viruses. All my other computers had bugs all the time but not my Mac.

 

[alwayscode390]

You guys bashing on gateway and emachines, I feel ya ... but its the same as DELL.

Just another fly-by-night company profiting off of IBM ---