While I love HP Cases and other HW, I have a 2nd hand good HP that refuse to rationally upgrade Fedora 6 to 7 without wanting to delete everything on the HD - or recognize the existing HDs... !!!
I thought I heard that a foreign company (Acer maybe?) was taking over Gateway - that does not necessarily mean they will be discontinued - check google to see if that is current info or not. I have had several Gateway machines (home and work) and they have been good, but I do recall Gateway having had some tough times in the past. HP is a bigger player and should be around for a long time. My most recent laptop is an HP and I really like it, and the price difference between Gateway and HP was not significant when I was shopping a few months back.
As far as HP, I would take them over anybody at this particular time. Their product lines have made leaps and bounds over the last few years and at least they stand behind their equipment.
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While I love HP Cases and other HW, I have a 2nd hand good HP that refuse to rationally upgrade Fedora 6 to 7 without wanting to delete everything on the HD - or recognize the existing HDs... !!!
I thought I heard that a foreign company (Acer maybe?) was taking over Gateway - that does not necessarily mean they will be discontinued - check google to see if that is current info or not. I have had several Gateway machines (home and work) and they have been good, but I do recall Gateway having had some tough times in the past. HP is a bigger player and should be around for a long time. My most recent laptop is an HP and I really like it, and the price difference between Gateway and HP was not significant when I was shopping a few months back.
gateway was purchased by Acer I believe.
As far as HP, I would take them over anybody at this particular time. Their product lines have made leaps and bounds over the last few years and at least they stand behind their equipment.
I would say go for an HP.
They could quit building either you have mentioned and it wouldn't hurt a lot of peoples feelings. The best is DELL.
http://www.dell.com/