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It's Official: Gateway Buys EMachines


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Gateway completed its buy of PC vendor EMachines this week, and appointed EMachines Chief Executive Officer Wayne Inouye as its new CEO.

Gateway's purchase of the Irvine, California, EMachines was valued at over $234 million in cash and stock when the deal was announced at the end of January.

Gateway, based in Poway, California, said that the buy would increase its scale, making it the third-largest player in the U.S. PC market and eighth-largest PC vendor in the world.

Inouye succeeds Ted Waitt as Gateway's CEO, though Waitt remains chairman of the company and its largest stockholder, Gateway says.

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Now there's a market that is 'shaking out'

No money to be made in hardware distribution.

Too many periphial vendors ..and too many people can build their own computer now.

You can buy a 'white box' 3 ghz Pent 4 with 800 FSB etc...for about 700 or 800 bucks.

Dell and Gateway and HP are at least $500 more.

in the meantime, look for more mergers ....

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