Gateway Essential PC (commercial 1999)

[someone31988]

Wow, I remember this commercial and my family eventually buying a Gateway computer later in the year.

[PainfulOrpheus]

I miss that floating cow box screensaver!

[brandonefron2064]

Does this come with Rockett's New School?

[ssj4david]

This IS a bargain basement PC.

[kd5ydu]

I had one of these! My second computer (circa 2000) had the 500MHz Celeron. Coming from a 486DX2 66MHz, I thought this was hot stuff. These days, I either build my own (waiting patiently for Ivy Bridge procs for my next one!) or get high-end Dells.

Everyone and their brother is a computer "technician" nowadays. A true technician either knows where the industry has been or was there in the midst of it all...and appreciates it.

[Phygar1]

I dont want shitty software on my computer

[TheJoeyzxc]

I remember when I couldn't get a laptop because they were so expensive. Well look now, $299 laptops.. $300.. $99 netbooks..

iPad, get ready, the $100 tablet is coming someday.

Macbook.. well, rich people still like you.

[GamingPalooza]

I had several Gateway 2000 PC's... including Celeron, PIII, and Pentium 1. My favorite was P1.

[TheBambam2371]

intel celeron ha haa ha ha ha ha it sucked

[EpicEarn]

No, what you get is this cheap computer with gay service, a crappy processor, and a cow that has somehow been crushed into a cube.

[bornwisedistruction]

From Gateway to Dell To building my own in 04' and i have never looked back best move ever!

[Rusty0918B]

Our first Pentium was a Gateway back in 1994. I had a Gateway Pentium MMX 166 MHz in 1997, though I switched a year later to a Pentium II 350MHz. Anyways, I know of someone who actually had a crappy experience with Gateway back in 1999, referring to it as the "Monster Known as Gateway," since she had a terrible experience with such.

Well keep in mind that this machine had a Celeron processor, which is the low end deal,as many commented on.

[MissMurder85]

My uncle had a Gateway xD

[aly369]

theres gateways were everywhere in the 90s ! In the uk everyone had one ! Literally everyone !

[GrumpyOldAssFart]

I always wanted a Gateway back then, but got a Compaq Presario 7630 (or something), it died in 2005 thanks to viruses, trojans and spywares - my fault I didn't know better.

Anyway I have a Gateway laptop I bought this year and I love it.

[vaultofknowledge]

sexy lookin computer i had that, looked kewl, but that monitor sucked it was dim and was total garbage upgraded to a dell trinitron 19 incher

[DAN5675able]

my parents used to have that computer

[TheMJG1]

CSI: Gateway :)

[cguyrr]

free internet access, just $28 a month

[StevensiTX]

Essential yes the AMD Athlon processor

[img6493]

this was my first computer...ahh memories...

[mikedoerrproduction]

hahaha fucking celerons are the worst processors ever

[dgrz1]

@mikedoerrproduction ok for basic computing,try to download and watch streaming video and you can have some problems.

[StevensiTX]

@mikedoerrproduction

idiotel Nightmare Processor

[Gatewayuser200]

@mikedoerrproduction and what exactly makes celerons so bad, ive used them before and they arent horribly slow

[mikedoerrproduction]

@Gatewayuser200 they have the least amount of processor cache ever made*

[Gatewayuser200]

@mikedoerrproduction and? i have a celeron in my laptop (sandy bridge) it just fine plays most of the pc games i like to play

[mikedoerrproduction]

@Gatewayuser200 lol you bought a laptop with a shit processor.. my Motorola RAZR cell phone has more processing power than that shiteron

[Gatewayuser200]

@mikedoerrproduction even my "shiteron" processor has much, much more power than any cell phone.

[mikedoerrproduction]

@Gatewayuser200 i think you may be exaggerating when you say "much, much more".. come on.. its a fucking Celeryon LOL... Celerons / Semprons (AMD's shit processors) are like the horse and buggy of the processor world. 

[Gatewayuser200]

@mikedoerrproduction Well, replace your cell phones processor with a modern celeron and it will fly out of your hands and hit your mum in the face (imagine you cell with a real intel processor lol) . And dont for get to add the AMD Duron to the list of shitty processors

[mikedoerrproduction]

@Gatewayuser200 Duron smokes Celerons right off the line

[Gatewayuser200]

@mikedoerrproduction the duron is still a striped down processor

[MrGUGLIELMOFEDERICO]

Is it the Intel Inside Celeron Processor logo on the left?

[RushOrbit]

at 0:15 imagine a black guy saying in the background "uuuh yeahh..." in a calm relaxed almost sexually suggestive voice

[novembre8211]

This is the EXACT Gateway computer I got back in '99. What they don't tell you in the commercial is that it sucks. Seriously, not even three months after putting the thing together and getting on the Internet and blah blah, the motherboard went out O_o I can't recall the number of times I had to call tech support because my Gateway Essential computer kept fucking up

[benschroeder]

@novembre8211 Really?  You remember the details 12 years later? i doubt it.

[amrit98ify]

I just love the intel animation and sound at the last!!!! we never enjoyed such things in india...

[mattfox14]

Free internet access for 28 dollas a month?

[SAIL4323]

@mattfox14

A computer for $28/month. I bet the free internet was for a limited time, and it must have been dial-up.