The release of the 6×86 gave Cyrix its first orders from OEMs, landing the chip in low-priced Compaqs, Packard Bells, and eMachines desktops. For tens of thousands of people, their first little ...

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Hui is certainly no stranger to the tech business world. He sold eMachines to Gateway for $266 million in 2004, after having acquired the struggling PC maker in 2001 for roughly $1 per share.

In fact, Gateway started out on its own, then later absorbed eMachines in 2004. While I can't say I thoroughly tested my old-school eMachine back in the day, it was reliable until it became ...

For a couple years at the turn of the century, the company was named Gateway 2000; later Gateway Computer and then Gateway, Inc. In 2004, Gateway acquired privately held eMachines of Irvine ...

The stuttering got bad enough on my laptop that I almost thought I was playing an old MMO on an eMachines with 512MB of RAM.