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Sept. 11, 2020
By Nicole Qaqundah, Senior Merchandise Director of Computing and Hamid Rassai, Senior Merchant Computing

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After five years, the cow is coming home! The iconic cow-spotted PC brand, Gateway, is making its big return, and Walmart is their exclusive retail partner for new lines of Gateway products, including laptops and tablets.

Since its inception on a small farm outside Sioux City, Iowa, in 1985, Gateway has built a reputation for manufacturing budget-friendly, well-made computers during a time when PCs were still unapproachable and daunting. Today, we’re thrilled to bring back this iconic brand and to offer our customers these exciting new products, especially during a time when laptops and learning tools are so critically in demand.

While the familiar cow print is still on the product packaging, Gateway’s new technology has received a major upgrade. The new products offer style, performance and value for customers, students and creators. Working alongside Intel, Gateway created three stylish lines of laptops and two new tablets in various colors, sizes and performance levels.

With tablets starting from just $69 and laptops beginning at $179, the new devices are available exclusively on Walmart.com, and they include:

• The Gateway Ultra Thin series features six laptops in a wide range of screen sizes, colors and features. They’re ergonomically engineered notebooks that offer great performance, connectivity and entertainment for computing on the go.

11.6' Ultra Slim Laptop ($179) featuring Windows 10 Home in S Mode, AMD A4-9120e – Dual Core – 1.5 GHz, 4GB / 64GB. Available in black, purple, blue and green colors.
14.1' Ultra Slim Laptop ($199) featuring Windows 10 Home in S Mode, Intel Celeron N3350 – Dual Core – 1.1 GHz, 4GB / 64GB. Available in black, purple, blue and green colors.
14.1' Ultra Slim Laptop ($349) featuring Windows 10 Home in S Mode, AMD Ryzen 3 - Picasso – Dual Core – 2.6 GHz, 4GB / 128GB. Available in black, purple, blue and green colors.
14.1' Ultra Slim Laptop ($369) featuring Windows 10 Home in S Mode, Intel i3 – Ice Lake 1005G1 – Dual Core – 1.2 GHz, 4GB / 128GB. Available in black, purple, blue and green colors.
14.1' Ultra Slim Laptop ($479) featuring Windows 10 Home in S Mode, Intel i5 – Ice Lake 1035G1 – Quad Core – 1.0 GHz, 16GB (onboard) / 256GB. Available in black, rose gold, blue and green colors.
15.6' Ultra Slim Laptop ($499) featuring Windows 10 Home, Intel i5 – Ice Lake 1035G1 – Quad Core – 1.0 GHz, 16GB (onboard) / 256GB. Available in black, rose gold, blue and green colors.

• The Gateway Creators series is a must-have for digital media creation with its unbeatable high-definition visuals. These laptops are built for creative projects, immersive gaming and entertainment.

15.6' Laptop ($799) featuring Windows 10 Home, AMD Ryzen 5 (Renoir) – Six Core – 3.0 GHz, 8GB Dual Channel / 256GB PCI-e, Nvidia 1650 GTX GPU w/ 4GB Vram. Available in black.
15.6' Creators Series Laptop ($999) featuring Windows 10 Home, Intel i5 – 10th Gen 10300H • (Commet Lake H) Quad Core – 3.0 GHz, 8GB Dual Channel / 256GB PCI-e, Nvidia 2060 RTX GPU w/ 6GB Vram), Available in black, purple, blue and green colors. Available in black.

• The 2-in-1 laptop is the most versatile option of the bunch, with an even more approachable price. These have the functionality of a laptop and ease of a tablet.

11.6' 2-in-1 Laptop ($199) with 2-in-1 Convertible Touchscreen, Windows 10 Home in S Mode Intel Celeron N3350 – Dual Core – 1.1 GHz, 4GB / 64GB. Available in black, purple, blue and green colors.

• The new Gateway tablets are designed with power and are meant for accessibility, available in vibrant colors to reflect customer style.

8' Tablet, ($69) 800X1280 ips, A50, 1GB/32GB, Android 10, 2/5 MP, 4000 mah, Available in black, purple and blue colors.
10.1' Tablet, ($89) 800X1280 ips, A50, 1GB/32GB, Android 10, 2/5 MP, 6000 mah, Available in black, purple and blue colors.

Shop Gateway’s new lines of laptops and tablets exclusively at Walmart.com/gateway.

Back in 2007, Taiwan-based PC manufacturer Acer bought the once-iconic Gateway brand in order to stick a thumb in the eye of rival OEM Lenovo and increase its US market presence. In the 13 years since, the Gateway brand has languished largely unused, while Acer built up its own name in the United States directly. The cow is officially back now, though, with a new line of mostly budget, Walmart-exclusive Gateway laptops.

The new line ranges from $180 to $1,000, and several models seem interesting—but when we looked closer, we found a familiar and not particularly attractive name behind the brand. Gateway is also making two models of Android tablet—an 8' GWAT8-1 which doesn't appear to be available retail yet, and a 10' model available at Walmart for $67. Trying to find more detail on the GWAT8-1 led us to a surprising discovery—it's actually made (or imported) by EVOO.

In June of this year, we reviewed and absolutely despised a $140 EVOO laptop—a device powered by an AMD A4-9120e CPU, just like the cheapest model of Gateway laptop in the table above. The new GWTN116-1BL has twice the RAM and storage compared to the effectively uncooled, drastically underclocked, and absolutely bletcherous EVOO EV-C-116-5—but when we went sleuthing, we discovered shipping records indicating that it, too, is an EVOO system.

More accurately, EVOO imports devices made by Shenzhen Bmorn Technology, a Chinese national brand. We found US Customs records of EVOO importing from Bmorn, with devices under both the Gateway brand and EVOO's own inside the same shipment.

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An Acer representative confirmed later that, although Acer does own the Gateway brand, it is not directly involved in the production or manufacture of these devices.

The new Gateway laptop lineup

Model	CPU	RAM	Storage	Price
11.6' FHD Ultra Slim GWTN116-1BL	AMD A4-9120e	4GiB	64GB	$180
11.6' FHD 2-in-1 Convertible GWTC116-1PR	Intel Celeron N3350	4GiB	64GB	$200
14.1' FHD Ultra Slim GWTN141-2PR	AMD Ryzen 3 3200U	4GiB	128GB	$350
15.6' FHD Ultra Slim GWTN156-1BL	Intel Core i5-1035G1	16GiB	256GB	$500
15.6' Creator Series GWTN156-2BK	AMD Ryzen 5 4600H	8GiB	256GB	$800
15.6' Creator Series GWTN156-3BK	Intel Core i5-10300H	8GiB	256GB	$1000

The first four models in this price-ranked list are available in black, blue, green, or purple; the more expensive Creator Series machines are available in black only.

All of these systems come with integrated graphics, except for the GWTN156-3BK. It features a discrete Nvidia 2060RTX instead.

The quest for a good, cheap laptop continues

If you're willing to give EVOO a second try, the 15.6' laptop with Ice Lake i5-1035G1 seems like an obvious pick. It's pretty inexpensive at $500 but offers 16GiB of RAM—twice as much as the more expensive Creator Series models—as well as a solid CPU. But at only $350, the Ryzen 3200U model grabbed our attention even harder.

Last year's Ryzen mobile CPUs aren't as great as this year's Renoir, and the 3200U is only a dual-core part. But its per-core performance is just about on par with the i5-1035G1. We expect the 3200U will be powerful enough to make for a decent overall experience for folks who need 'a real laptop' but have serious budget constraints.

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This, of course, overlooks the elephant in the room—the EVOO connection. And 'connection' probably isn't even a strong-enough word—both EVOO- and Gateway-branded laptops come from the same supplier to the same receiver (EVOO itself) in the same shipments.

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We've heard people say decent things about EVOO's higher-end laptops, so it's possible that some of these will turn out to be a good deal. We intend to test and review at least one of them here soon—but in the meantime, we'd advise some caution with the new 'Gateway' brand.