William Fleckenstein, who runs portfolios from a Seattle-based firm bearing his name, says that investors should short mail-order PC vendor Gateway 2000.
Exactly who might pay $800 to $1,200 for such a thing, not counting a wireless link for your pc or gateway, remains a mystery.
These FX-edition laptops and PCs from Gateway come in black and brown.
In time that chip design evolved into AMD's flagship microprocessor line Athlon 64, used by PC makers like Gateway and Hewlett-Packard.
One obvious beneficiary has been Advanced Micro Devices amd, which earlier this year scored microprocessor supply deals with big-name PC makers like Gateway gtw after Intel could not meet their demand.
It was a cheap, beige Gateway PC. (Forgive me, I was poor and it was on sale).
We saw this in the 90s when every Compaq, HP, Dell, and Gateway PC was using the same pieces, and we see it today with TV makers who all have the same fundamental features and have to invent new numbers to increment at every CES.
These companies have members download software to turn their PC's into gateways, or peers, on networks of interconnected PC's.
C1 Big PC Maker Scaling Back Gateway said after the markets closed that it would lay off about 5,000 workers, or 25percentt of its work force, and eliminate most overseas operations to regain profitability.
Supporting our optimism: rumors that Gateway, the PC maker that's based in San Diego, California, might join forces with Vitech in Latin America.
