Gateway PCs return as Walmart exclusives, priced from $200 to $1200

Gateway is back! One of the earliest American PC companies, Gateway may be most remembered for its black-and-white-spotted “cow” logo, a reference to the company’s start (as Gateway 2000) on a farm near Sioux City, Iowa, in 1985.

A lot has happened in the last 35 years. After Acer agreed to acquire the Gateway brand for $710 million in 2007, the company essentially went quiet. 

In its new life, Gateway is a Walmart-exclusive, value-priced brand offering everything from an Android tablet to a gaming laptop. (Walmart also manufactures its own lineup of Motile laptops, which we’ve found to be surprisingly good.) It appears that the iconic “cow”-spotted boxes have returned, too. 

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