In the UK a typical Gateway 2000 desktop PC came with a Trinitron screen, made by Sony in South Wales.

Their business model for the UK was the same tax scam as Apple, Dell and others. Everything was mail order, operating out of Dublin.

Their products had quality multimedia toys (CD, speakers, decent screen, keyboard with extra programmable keys) combined with decent CPU/RAM/ROM/graphics for the price.

I did support for a small company that bought Gateway (in the UK) and there certainly were no 'Made in USA' labels anywhere.

I really liked their machines and I bought one myself because it had that Trinitron screen at a bargain price. I was very happy with that machine. In the UK they went a bit sour after dropping the '2000' branding with the cow spots.

Their laptops were not as successful as their desktop machines, where they never quite managed to compete in either the 'value for money' or 'nice to have' sectors. Dell, Toshiba and even Compaq had preferable laptops.

Their success in the UK was the Dell model (Ireland tax fiddle), except they didn't make you wait weeks for your machine (like Dell did, with it having to be 'built to order').