Gateway Is BACK! - But Is Their $200 Laptop Any Good?
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Gateway is a name that we haven't heard in a while in the world of technology. Founded in 1985 as Gateway 2000, they went on to be one of the most popular computer manufacturers out there. But now, after a long hiatus, they're back! But are their new machines any good? Let's find out!
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The box came open during shipment. FedEx is shitty and they don't attempt to repackage... Unlike UPS which actually will attempt to repackage and ensure contents. If UPS looses your package it either got lost in the miles of belts/conveyors/shutes, or is damaged beyond repackaging. Sometimes the sender doesn't even respond to UPS's request to reship a customer's order at the expense of UPS. YES... UPS attempts to pay for damages to contents that are damaged in shipment.
Hi mjd! I really like your vids.
*thats it lmao*
This is a scam ,some knock off .
Gateway was epic back in the day .
Kyriakos The Awesome Teenager Edit: I think the i5 10300h will do well with the 2060 but I feel like the i7 10 series if it has one would be better. I assume it doesn’t have a Ryzen option either?
Try "Altos Computing " brand also.
*20 years later*
The 10$ Gateway Windows 10 Machine - A retro rarity or rubbish?
spoiler alert: Rubbish.
No way is anyone going to even remember this next week.
I have 2 gateways from 2009,
They are missing both 1 gig of ram...
so its 1 gig of ram in both and they came with win7 starter.
I destroyed one with Gateway system restore.
and the other has FRICKING WINDOWS 10 ON IT.
lol.
Yes!
0 years later
The 500,000,000 costly machine
Fake diamonds or real diamonds?
When the package thief takes pity on you for your choice of laptop.
Exactly my thought 😂
Exactly what I thought. Someone decided it wasn't worth stealing 🤣
“I take the bubble wrap and you enjoy your garbage computer”
I would take the box, open it take it home, when its raning bring it out for an hour.
😂😂😂
My first real pc was a Gateway, man... depressing to see this.
Ikr
My first PC was given to me by my grandpa... his prebuilt Gateway w/ an i7-920 & 3GB RAM
ouch, i feel bad for you.
My current laptop is a gateway one
My sisters was Gateway. I got some junk ass EMachines
Gateway was the last PC my father had before passing away in 2009. I'll always remember fondly this brand.
And this is what Acer is banking on. Nostalgia, warm and fuzzies, nothing actually resembling quality.
and thats how these companies will take advantage of your love for your father :(
I think GPU Company could be an unfortunate acronym for "Gateway Products US"
I was going to comment the same thing.
Now we just need "compaq product USA"
same, though it does sound generic as all fuck.
A true Gateway uses a GPMöö
...
I'm utterly disappointed in myself.
What about Compaq US Manufacturing?
CUM Company 😂
Worked at Walmart in a previous life. While I cant stand the place I can confirm their shipping standards are better than that. Looks to me like your package got searched in transit I've seen that happen alot from the shipping companies and even post office.
But if it was searched by fedex wouldn’t they of taped it back up?
@@bixbabble3935 not always some just open everything up an throw it all right back in and move on. I do admit usually they do throw in a card that says item had to be inspected.
backslashxy1 but still you would think it would be taped instead of the box being folded. It’s like if your bag is checked at the airport and your suitcase comes back on the conveyor belt wide open not zipped up.
Yeah, you can even see the tape on the top that was cut, that tape wouldn't be there if it had just been folded originally. Combined with the actual laptop box being ripped open as well, this was clearly opened during shipping. Either for legit reasons or otherwise, certainly wasn't shipped in that condition.
GenKumon I would call FedEx or Walmart or both
You know, in a way, this is actually pretty insulting. There was a time in history where Gateway was one of the best of the best. They brought Gateway back from the grave only to soil its name and make it look weak. To us fans of retro computers, this is indeed pretty insulting. Acer, pay attention to what people are doing to one of your brands and put a stop to this.
What would you recommend for computer manufacturers nowadays? I built my own PC, and I didn't mind it, but it's not something I'm *super* interested in doing again.
@@olbluelips well, building your own computer to me is a very enjoyable experience, but I can definitely understand where you're coming from. As far as what I would recommend, that really depends. It depends on what you'll be using it for.
@@MaoTao well, that's kind of a waste I guess. Could have given it to someone that needed a computer or given it to Goodwill or something. Oh well.
RCA Tablets
The CEO of Acer/Gateway is on meth. He doesn't care as long as he gets his high salary to pay for his drugs. LOL
I've gotta admit, even if the computer sucked; I do admire the attention to heritage with the cowprint box.
Also: more recently, Gateway updated their actual website to completely cut off mentions of it's Products and Shopping tools and it is now strictly for support, driver downloads and a history page.
Nice to see that THX means _absolutely nothing_ now.
It really never meant anything besides being a “peace of mind” label for high definition audio. It was pretty cool when select DVDs had THX demos, which has become sort of a meme.
THX select II (ultra) still means something. But I agree they should not put their name on trash products. Maybe something like "THX certified - basic mobile sound" to certify phones/Laptops for having an at least somewhat ok sound.
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The audience is now deaf
As well as AKG ever since Samsung bought them out. Tough times for finding proper audio these days :/
@4:04 "Look at how this idiot packed it. He didn't tape it, he just flipped the flaps." --Morty Seinfeld, 1994.
That Jack Klompus was an a-hole.
This isn’t Gateway coming back. This is Gateway getting the Disney treatment. A larger company is using its brand image and logo while making its corpse shuffle about for a bit.
You mean Nokia treatment? I mean those Nokia-branded devices are not as great as the true Nokia one or even that already have Microsoft brand on it
@@muhamadrizkyananda Disney revived Star Wars but its just a shambling zombie of what it used to be.
@robloxguy453 Well maybe, their current feature phones series are doing great and I actually liked them, but HMD Nokia are only doing great as OG Nokia/Microsoft Nokia for their early/debut devices, well the current one just feel like some random phones with Nokia brand slapped on it. And even (idk this is HMD or not) Nokia's new Booklet aka laptop but it's actually just random laptop that purchased the brand license similiar with this Gateway one.
Their devices doesn't have much selling and unique points that interesting enough and price to performance make non sense especially in my country. Like they are just selling nostalgia. I do miss the unique design and form factor of OG Nokia.
You mean Victrola treatment? Banking on brand name recognition and nostalgia to move more units of cheap-as-possible to produce crapola. Excuse me while I put a record on my 6-in-1 stereo.
@@jpdunphy1 lol
I paid $2400 for my first Gateway computer in 1995. I loved that machine! How far we have come.
I remember going in a gateway store in the early 2000's and helping a family member get a pc built for their business. it cost like $4000, and it was a Pentium 3 Cpu, with a 40GB hard drive and 1GB of ram running windows xp.
Back then Pentiums were called hot-potatoes back then. Man I do miss the early 2000s.
@@heyitsablackguy9553 The Pentium 4s were the hot ones. Pentium 3s were a lot more power efficient.
Gateway still exists? Holy cow!
And it was meant to be a joke, the logo is a cow skin
John Wagner gateway did exist
YES, WE GET IT.
Hence I named my first Gateway "The Purple Cow".
I never saw a Purple Cow,
I never hope to see one;
But I can tell you, anyhow,
I'd rather see than be one.
-- Gelett Burgess (1895)
Gateway was no joke. Originally they were Gateway 2000 and then dropped the 2000 and added Holstein branding. The company was founded in a city well known for their beef packing and farming.
It's a cow block
'Out of retirement' is an understatement 'back from the grave' is more fitting
Considering the fact that the shipping label was covered up by the flap, I have a feeling that somebody opened it and closed it back up after it got close to its destination. That package has definitely been tampered with. I've ordered a ton of stuff from Walmart, and never once received a box packed like that. I'd have refused the shipment looking like that, or at the very least, document it and send a complaint to both Fedex and Walmart.
The packaging gives me flashbacks to DankPod's Ebay Global Shipping Program nightmares
_slash and dash_
*someone's been in here*
I know
I've always wondered why Acer never used Gateway as a lower end, more affordable computer brand that could be sold at Walmart or Target. That's what Gateway was as a company initially anyways, so why not take advantage of it? Thanks for another great video Michael!
I agree. That name has to be good for something. People still remember it and back in the day, for a short time at least, they were a pretty well respected brand. I remember Dell and Gateway being competitors in the custom home PC market back in the 90s. Dell figured out how to move on. Gateway not so much.
They just sell it as Acer, because it's a more popular brand
@@flame2385 Seems like it's still popular enough for a random chinese brand to want to use to make their laptops somewhat recognizable. Although, their designs don't seem to come even close to CHUWI's.
hope you got your answer from the vid
Cause acer IS the low end brand. Gateway should be thier luxury brand
Ah yes my laptop that I use for zoom meetings and google classroom has an RTX 2060 so I can raytrace my answers
4k google slides too
@@chilly556 yeahh
HD google too
@@cabbagememes2852 right?
@@emeraldboy7979 yes 😂
I remember when everyone wanted a gateway laptop. We would even rush over to the computer lab to make sure we were one of the ones using the laptops instead of the old desktops.
When he first opened the laptop and I saw the keyboard and the placement of the delete button I screamed
I remember being all excited when the Gateway "Cow Boxes" showed up at our house.
My parents kept theirs and we use it to store Christmas decorations. What a lovely box
Thanks for the update! Very helpful.
This is essentially a windows 10 Cromebook.
Yeah it looks very similar to my 4 year old Acer chromebook.
This instantly makes it better than even the $1000 pixel book because it can run applications that don’t run on an android phone or inside of chrome
@@victoriamorrison5454 Im pretty sure you can run WINE on Chromebooks.
@@Isopromptyl yes, Crossover Office is available for ChromeOS. I have the new release but I haven't installed it yet.
Keep it in the box in mint condition so in 30 years someone with a retro computer UA-cam channel can unbox it 😉
No! We don't want to preserve that part of the computer history!
LOL, it was ALREADY "unboxed" before he took delivery!
LOL, it was ALREADY "unboxed" before he took delivery!
@@absolutewisp I actually find the cheap garbage hardware of yesteryear to be rather interesting.
Sorry in 30yrs UA-cam won't be here. Some other site will be the main video content site people are using. In 30yrs, UA-cam whats that ?
MJD: I have this Acer
*Proceeds to pull out the laptop that I'm watching this on*
I got an E5-475G... not bad ig
I had so much good memories back 20 years ago at my grandmothers house in Nashville by playing on her Gateway computer. Overall Gateway was one of those good PC brands from the 80's and 90's that faded away in the mid 2000's like Packard Bell, and a few others.
This computer is like some computers in my country, they uses the chips of phones to storage and ram, they are tablets on a notebook
Brasil? Positivo?
@@mal0gen AND multilaser, don't forget multilaser
I have a cute story.
Right now I'm watching this on a computer (duh) that has a "Gateway 2000" logo on it. It's not really a Gateway anymore. It's what was left over from a broken donated machine. Over the years I've swapped out, changed, upgraded, and replaced so many parts that it no longer has any Gateway guts inside, but the case is still here. There are so many "auxiliary" random holes drilled in it (lost the cover many years ago) for accommodating so many different parts that "just didn't fit right" as I modified it over the years. I think this was supposed to be a server tower at some point. It has room for two power supplies, four 5.25" cdroms, a 1.44M floppy (oddly enough I have still have one installed and actually working), and four internal 3.5" hard drive bays. It's gone all the way from a 486DX to a present day AMD FX-8302E eight core.
That’s really awesome! It would be cool to build a modern system in an old PC case like that.
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I have a similarly spec'ed but older Dell Venue (11?) tablet/PC. It's very handy for typical functions, looking up things, watching video, or anything where you might need a PC rather than an Android tablet. If this Gateway's build quality is as good as it seems it would definitely be useful, especially after slapping a less resource intensive Linux distro on it. Doubly so if you can upgrade the memory.
As a former walmart associate, that's definitely unlike what we usually receive. Especially if it's a walmart brand (I would group this in since it's a walmart exclusive laptop) we often deal with a ton of products within boxes within boxes. If anything, that's a lot better packaging than what we receive, since we receive laptops just in the laptop box, not in a standard brown box. If I had to hazard a guess, someone tried to steal it but may have been caught red-handed by FedEx.
I remember having a Packard Bell laptop back in 2011, which had equivalent Acer and Gateway-branded versions (only the branding changed between them; components were the same).
Their netbook lines were so effin similar. I had a PB Dot-s which also had a Gateway variant (KAV-60)
@@CasioMaker Mine was a PB dot-a, AKA Acer Aspire One 721, AKA Gateway LT32.
About your initial touchpad issue, I have a Lenovo ThinkPad T430 (2347-DT4) that used to be part of my local school district. I've upgraded it down the road, such upgrades including an SSD. And here's the thing, I've had it hibernate and do "fast startup" on the SSD, and it did wreak some havoc on the touchpad and TrackPoint mouse. When I restarted it though, it was working fine once again.
By the look of that box, I have a feeling it was tampered with after being shipped. The tape used to seal the box is on the flaps and cut, no bubble packing is another indicator of tampering, boxes don’t typically leave the facility I work at without packing and a fully sealed box
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Awesome! I had no idea Gateway would ever make a comeback at all, but it's incredible that it did!
However, these laptops are just generic laptops with the Gateway logo slapped on. However, it is nice that Acer is reviving the brand!
@@theincrediblehulk2865 I see. Very true, so I agree!
CEO100able, these laptops are the same. They sell these laptops in the UK/Germany as Medion-devices.
We've got 10 Gateway servers at work so they've still been around for some time.
i wish they made a true and full comeback
I like the way you open the boxes, fast and easy. :D
This video is edited and scripted really really well I appreciate it
so its a typical rebranding. Sometimes these rebrandings are quite good. Ive bought some Philco rebrands that are quite good, they have more and better features and overall look way better quality than the generic version. (battery powered screw driver and drill). The generic ones sometimes cheap out too much, so the rebrand usually also adds some quality control and common sense features missing.
Me: Wait... Gateway is making computers again?
Video: Well, yes, but actually, no!
Looks like a simple case of a delivery sorter/security/customs checking the package and making sure it's a computer and not something contraband. It's easy to see someone like that not being careful with the package, instead of the original 'packager'.
I'm so happy we have kindle competition now. I love kindle for their price to performance and ease of jailbreaking. I hope these gateway tablets continue
Baffled that these aren't on Walmart shelves. One would think the whole point is for older folks who recognise the Gateway brand to pick these up.
Hi Michael. I have a video idea for you. A while ago, you did a video on trying to get Windows 1 apps to work on Windows 10. Why not try running Windows NT3 apps on Windows 10, and vice-versa to see what happens?
I'd like to see this as well, maybe 4.x apps too.
@The Scoot Not true. You can have some 'modern' apps (not Modern), that may work with Windows NT3. And he's even managed to get Windows Vista apps running on Windows 98...
Any program compiled with a recent version of Visual Studio almost certainly wont work on NT3.. The c run time uses windows api functions introduced in versions of windows newer than NT3. NT3 apps on 10 should generally work fine, unless they to do something like try to execute code from data segments which has been prevented since xp for security reasons.
@@Locutus Tell Michael that if he doesn't do this:
_Resistance is futile._
Can barely run win10 apps on win10 without net and clr freaking out, so can't imagine. Really bad design, impossible to repair the kernel
My very first computer was a Gateway in 1999. It had a Pentium 3 processor. I'm pretty sure all the ram and storage numbers were measured in MB... This beast ran on dial up. We had AOL and the whole 9 yards. I remember we ended up putting in a 2nd phone line for it because my mother didn't like not being able to talk on the phone while we were using the internet.
I also remember before we got the 2nd landline, we had some type of program on the computer that was basically Caller ID and it would tell you when and who was trying to call you. And you could click a button and choose to end the internet connection and allow the call to ring the house. Or you could ignore the notice and stay connected online.
Man, those were some times...
Gateway was the first computer I bought for my kids and I back in 1999 on a payment system. It was so slow but we loved it. The packaging that looked like cows was cool. We had it for a super long time.
Anyone else remember having to go out to the Farm in Sioux City to get your Gateway computer? Or am I just that old
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i'd love to get one of these over here in the UK, they look brilliant!
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That’s exactly the same with current Nokia phones. They have absolutely nothing to do with Nokia. They are cheap generic Chinese phones but they bought a license to use the name Nokia. Many well known brands sell their name to being put on cheap ass crap devices.
With the way this laptop was packaged... It reminds me when I bought a "new" copy of Project X Zone 2. When it arrived, it certainly looked the part, with shrink wrap on it and everything. But when I popped the game into my 3DS, there was some save data on it. And when I looked through the instruction manual, I noticed that some kid had scribbled in the "additional notes" segment in it, saying it was like Smash Bros and stuff like that. Turns out the seller I bought this from had a habit of just taking used games, packing them in shrink wrap and just marketed it as new.
I have one and I like it. Easily upgradeable if you need but the 16 gig is great to get all my work done. Haven't had any issues
I'm guessing these are geared more toward younger students who do remote schooling from their homes.
Very clever, Acer.
This sure is an oddity. I guess they're bringing this back for nostalgia? Honestly just feels bizzare to me, why not just sell these under the Acer name? After all, that's a much better known brand these days.
I also would never suggest buying those garbage $200 laptops, they really can't do anything. I guess you could put a really light Linux distro on it, even then the experience wouldn't be ideal.
A refurbished ThinkPad or Dell Latitude is much better in that budget range for a laptop, especially with SSDs.
@@MLGKid420 Yeah, you're better off buying an old Dell or Lenovo from or newer than 2009 (Windows 7 era), put an SSD and Windows 10 in it and it will be better and sometimes cheaper than these "Gateway" China garbage
I guess they’re trying to use the Gateway brand for some slight recognition as well as to sell cheaper stuff that doesn’t tarnish the Acer brand
Probably they don't want to tarnish the main Acer brand. Otherwise people will use one then thereafter be like, "I tried an Acer once, it was shit".
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That Creator laptop with the RTX 2060 was available on sale over the holidays a couple years ago for $699 IIRC, which was an absolute steal.
I saw the thumbnail and I got happy, then I watched it and immediately became sad. Very sad.
The screen folds back and the laptop runs the same specs roughly as my 2015 HP Pavilion x360 Convertible. Nice to see Gateway's branding for sure, but I think they could of done it with some better quality products to better represent the brand.
If you think that other brands give more quality for $200 than oh boy, you're so wrong,
@@gorjy9610 Considering I paid $3 for mine, it's a bit better. Although yes, I get what you mean.
Wow !! This surely bring back memories....😅 only last time I could only see this brand in the magazines...
Loved Gateways!! Grew up with them in the 90's
I’ll be honest, I have the gateway laptop, the blue touch screen one, the 200$ one, it’s pretty good (I got mine in store)
Is the RAM expandable or nay?
I do hope Gateway comes into its own again. My family had a Gateway computer that lasted 12 years. I'm not too sure about these new laptops though because I have purchased both an acer laptop and an acer tablet before, and they were both craptastic.
my first monitor is a gateway, so it's cool to see them come back, even though I didn't know they were gone.
Somebody opened your packaging and got cold feet when trying to open the actual box.
This is why Walmart should not be allowed anywhere near computers.
2:22 If that came with a Ryzen 7 that actually wouldn’t be that bad of a deal
Hmmm... A Chinese laptop with an RTX 2060, it will definitely not be a reprogrammed GTX 960 or anything...
Adam Wójcik I mean they could be built by Clevo, which is a much more reputable brand...
@evandarkfire I said that because, as I was reading your comment, I remembered a Chinese GTX 1050Ti for $50 that I saw on Wish around 2018. You have your point :)
@@absolutewisp nah, a decent brand laptop wouldn't possibly use a reprogrammed card
Cause if they actually did
Basically everyone would be returning it when crashes happen
Plus, those are only seen on desktop cards anyway
@@absolutewisp but Lenovo are the top-end of Chinese laptops. They're the only reputable chinese laptops, actually.
Had to deal with one since 2013. Getting a pc next week, but I'll still love it. It just can't do anything.
My first laptop was a Gateway NE56R10U with Windows 8 on it. My mom got it for me on my 18th birthday. Mine had a 1.7 ghz dual core Celeron. The higher end model had a Pentium.
I wouldn’t expect good reviews from a laptop that costs as much as a Ryzen 5 3600 alone
Michael: It`s Maybe The Smallest Laptop Charger I Ever Seen
Dart-C: Well...you should have seen me first
I own the GTW141-4BL model and the Fans on this thing are loud but i got differrent hardware and put it in to make it run alot better
Got their 11.6" Celeron convertible and it works well. Slight stutters in tboi rebirth and works well at medium settings in etg.
This is awesome. My first PC was from Gateway. I had some good memories from them. I hope I'll have the same from this one.
Since the Fedex-Sticker was on the "inside flap", I guess your package was damaged in shipping, and Fedex was just too lazy for proper repackaging.
This is why I no longer trust FedEx.
12:36 Not being able to open it with one hand is very common on the fold-back laptops, even in very high end ones.
I still have a FX 6000 series gateway desktop with a i7 920 from 2006-7 ish.
still works great.
May actually look at the AMD version of this "Gateway" 11.6" laptop as a beater/utility laptop for field work at my job. Of course a Linux install would be first installed.
You can Never expect any type of good performance when it comes to Celeron regardless of the ram or machine brand. Celeron is crap
Currently watching this video on my 20 years old gateway such a quality
My GWTN141-3 arrived just fine, excellent performance for the price ($280), had a foam pad over the keyboard and everything, I did a teardown to find out it was running SpecTek RAM modules at 2400 MHz, and included a single SO-DIMM slot. Even though it has an SSD running windows 10, the port is capable of PCIE*4 NVME so you can always upgrade and move their default SSD to the expansion m.2 🤓
Pro tip: compare all the CPU's, make a spreadsheet if you want, I'm finding the best value for dollar is the Intel 1005G1 cpu.
I hope real Gateway comes back one day. Maybe these new laptops can jumpstart that. They had such amazing BEAST gaming desktops from the late 90s to the end, especially the FX line. Great value for the money. Definitely keeping my eye on this new Gateway and what it leads to. There is a review of the creators $999 model from a few days ago.
Why does this look like a kids toy? Maybe it came out to catch the "Google Classroom Compatible" market?
i think that was added becaus eof the covid pandemic
@@grkb Yeah, that's what I meant.
i broke the charger, can’t really find a replacement without buying a whole nother laptop, then having to share one cord
I want to see how Windows XP would run on it.
This is going to be a UEFI only system so XP probably can't boot on it.
@@CommodoreFan64 Ok, so Linux is definitely better than 10. I'd take it over 10 any damn day of the week, no contest.
With that said, Windows 7 and 8.1 (with Classic Shell installed) are still better OSes for regular use.
@@CommodoreFan64 *windows is filled with bloatware* tell that to windows 7 buckaroo.
@@CommodoreFan64 I respect your opinion, but I prefer windows 7. It feels fast on any hardware even if it’s older or newer. However, it is unsupported. But I can have support for 3 more years by paying.
I recommend linux for this case anyways has much better low end hardware support idk about that other guy he likely a arch user
Celeron = "Sell ya wrong"
@@CommodoreFan64 yeah, absolutely!
same with dual core A4, A6, They are garbage.
@@CommodoreFan64 If I can choose a newer Quad core Celeron then that will be the choice. but if old dual core celeron and amd a4/a6 then I rather not choose anything.
@@BNTNJA Would probably choose an old Core 2 Duo Mac over any dual core celeron lol
@@CommodoreFan64like atleast use SATA HDDs instead of eMMC lol
I can probably explain why that box was a bit ripped up (5:11) so, if I had to guess, FedEx's sorting system is similar to that of UPS's (because I have a friend who's a UPSer explain to me in detail just the basics of how it all works in the facility they work in. Granted, I'm being vague here because it's just common courtesy and at the request of my friend who shall remain nameless. Privacy reasons you see.) sorting system. Most likely it might've gotten ripped up a bit because it could've got caught on the nylon strip that's used to (generally speaking) reduce the friction from packages transitioning from the belt to another belt or otherwise. As for the lack of packaging material... I will say for certain that it's either negligence or under the assumption that the actual product's box itself will have the packaging material inside. While that is a fair assumption, you can never be too careful so from my friend's professional opinion, it's better to be safe than sorry.
When I asked my friend what he thinks of this sight of a box being inside another box like this, they said, and I am paraphrasing here, "Judging by this, I can probably guess that they may have put a label on the box and then when it went through their own sorting system, it may have been damaged in the process so they may have opted to put it in their own box to prevent anymore hiccups. Either that or they don't want the box to lose it's contents during the sorting process and/or shipment so they decided that by using their own box may have been an option that was considered. There are so many reasons I can think of why they went this route."
I remember my family had a Gateway computer when I was growing up. The way your laptop arrived is terribly packaged including the outer box. Gateway came out the same year i was born.
Old Gateway was much better.
Moral of the story: DO NOT BUY COMPUTERS FROM WALMART!!!!
I've made that mistake approximately 1.7 years ago. In fact, I'm typing this message on the same laptop I got from there. And let me tell you, they are crap.
Please, nobody buy laptops from Walmart. Even better, don't buy cheap laptops from Walmart for a higher price than the laptop is worth.
@@ITAC85 amen lol
I've repaired too many
I don't buy electronics in general from Wallymart. They have a chronic habit of selling used/returned items as new.
Great honest review
I actually saw one of these at my Walmart. When I was buying an HP Laptop. It had a SHREK WALLPAPER.
Good video
Thanks!
BRUH WHY DONT REPLY TO OTHERS OMG THIS IS UNLOLABKE
@@handlesrtwitterdontbelivethem r/ihadastroke
BRUH OFF
@@handlesrtwitterdontbelivethem NO
They need to ship it with Manjaro instead of Windows 10. Or at least some Linux distro. i7 2600k system with 8gb DDR3 took 25 seconds to respond to Windows 10 start menu with an old 5400rpm 2.5" HDD out of a PS3. Manjaro however, made it feel like I swapped it with an SSD on the spot. (Arch ftw).
That's not the CPU or the ram, that's the shitty hdd
It doesn't matter what your cpu is or what your ram is, if your HDD is crap and is 5400RPM then you're gonna be experience slowness
It's the Hdd, you should get either a 7200 rpm drive or an ssd.
The keyboard design, mainly the fonts, give off some major clues. Seen that on really cheap offbrand laptops quite a few times.
In fact I guess that BMORN is probably the poorman's Clevo.
Bro I just started working at Best Buy. All the "budget" laptops comes in Windows S mode and explaining how to upgrade to someone VERY less tech savy is a pain. Usually they record me using the display models taking it out of S mode.
Also, my first ever desktop was a Gateway and I can never forget that new Gateway computer smell.
one of the first comments- you will never see this ;P
I see it :p