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Have you named it yet ?? :)-

Posted by /pd at February 9, 2005 1:44 PM

A pity I live in that part of the world, where world-wide-guaranties are not valid, and world-wide-shipping is not possible... :) No gateways here... :(

Posted by mantautas at February 9, 2005 5:49 PM

Greetings from my Insanely Great Apple Powerbook G4.

My Powerbook can beat up your Gateway.

Posted by Erick Blackwelder at February 9, 2005 11:37 PM

Tom, I love ya, but for a guy who talks about WOW/cool/awesome/beautiful/insanely great/world changing/unbelieveable/inspiring/knock your socks off/heels over head projects/people and products—how can you buy a Gateway? You can afford it. Ditch the Gateway and buy a new Powerbook. For someone who thinks that design matters, you have to admit, Apple is where it's at! Trust me, everything inside you will "Ahh...!!!!!"

Posted by Bruce Johnson at February 10, 2005 12:59 AM

To know the bad things is as much important as to understand the good ones.

Posted by mantautas at February 10, 2005 2:44 AM

Yes, Peter, my colleague Abbey is currently into the Fitzgeralds, the ultimate dysfunctional family. She's ZELDA.

Posted by tom peters at February 10, 2005 1:59 PM

I knew I'd take heat here. At least I bought my wife the new Powerbook for Christmas. (Some small credit?)

Posted by tom peters at February 10, 2005 2:00 PM

Tom,

I'll give you credit for marrying a smart woman.

Posted by Dustin at February 10, 2005 6:46 PM

I'm glad to hear this is your 3rd. mine too. Great box for the money. Believe it or not what sold me is the feel on the keyboard. Sounds trival but a keyboard with terrible feel is not worth it at any price. Other than that they are strong competitors to Dell etc but for some reason they don't get enough positive pub.

Posted by john isaac at February 10, 2005 11:13 PM

I'm glad to hear this is your 3rd. mine too. Great box for the money. Believe it or not what sold me is the feel on the keyboard. Sounds trival but a keyboard with terrible feel is not worth it at any price. Other than that they are strong competitors to Dell etc but for some reason they don't get enough positive pub.

Posted by john isaac at February 10, 2005 11:14 PM

We gave away our Gateway LT and Dell Dsk machines... and the IBM dinosaur that sat in the corner chewing up work hours in repair after repair. We have two WINTEL machines running WIN XP in our office - they die every couple of days. On the other hand our Mac's have been switched on and running now for 32 days straight - no problems. If Gateway/Dell/WIN was any good - why do they have security updates every 3 weeks? Check SF Gate Columnist, Mark Morford's article on why you have to be vigilant with WIN:
http://sfgate.com/columnists/morford/

Lets face it the UNIX architecture has been around for over 25 years and is far more stable and rock solid than other PC system out there. Steve Jobs and Apple made the right decision to run their operating system on top of UNIX.

Posted by Peter Smarton at February 10, 2005 11:18 PM

Dustin, my wife is an artist-designer-entrpreneur. She thinks anyone not on Apple (starting with me) is a brainless fool lacking in taste as well.

Posted by tom peters at February 12, 2005 10:33 AM

I endorse the Gateway. For a long time I assumed that I would end up with two systems--an Apple for graphic-intensive work (an outside designer I use for some projects tells me that from everything he reads the Mac still performs those tasks a little bit faster, even at lower clock speeds) and Windows systems for everything else. There are too many applications I rely on for the everything else that come only in the Windows flavor, and I don't see how that will ever change with Apple having only a 2% market share. But the saga of Apple is a fascinating one, and a cautionary tale for all of us. You probably wouldn't be able to buy a powerbook or an ipod today if Apple hadn't finally brought Steve Jobs back to the company he co-founded, but regrettably not until after the guys who banished him from Apple had driven it into the dirt.

Posted by Doug Smith at February 12, 2005 1:14 PM

Tom,

She said it, I didn't.

Love the artist-designer-entrepreneur designation. I guess I would be in a similar category as that. Maybe artist-designer-inspirer. Loving every minute of it.

Posted by Dustin at February 14, 2005 12:37 PM

Tom,

Your statement begs some questions --

1. Why does your 3rd Gateway make you very happy? 2. Do you really like number's 1 and 2 so much that you got #3? 3-5. Since you spend your money on Gateway over other brands I need to know why -- light weight?, performance? keyboard? 6. What model did you get? 7. What custom additions does #3 have? 8. Your purchase makes me want to consider a Gateway for myself, but why -- from your experience -- do I want one?

Enough questions, I need to say something about Carly, HP and Compaq. I once bought a Compaq computer. It was a bad choice. Somehow, the purchase of a computer is more "personal" than buying eggs or flour. Anyway, after my Compaq purchase, being a consumer and one that could vote with my $, I decided to not buy another Compaq computer. Well, when Carly brought Compaq into HP, that meant HP was off my computer list as well -- since you never know what is under the hood.

I just wonder if anyone else felt that way...

Thanks for the site!

Bob

Posted by Bob at February 17, 2005 9:59 PM