HIGHER EDUCATION
The Right Answers

Computers are turning up everywhere: in the learning lab, the registrar’s office, the computer center, and in almost every office, dorm room and class on campus. If you could just find a single computer company to supply and support all those systems at a reasonable cost, life would be a lot simpler.

Eureka! It’s Gateway 2000, the educated choice for quality, innovative computers for your students and staff. A leading direct marketer of PCs in the U.S., Gateway has been in the business of computing for more than 11 years. With all that experience, you might say our major is in bringing cutting technology to higher education at the best values in the industry. How do we do it? When you buy from Gateway 2000, you’re buying direct from the manufacturer. Our efficient business model eliminates the middleman, which saves you money and helps your school get more computer for the buck.

The Education Team
While the need for education is constant, the tools for learning - and for administrating - are rapidly changing. Gateway 2000’s Major Accounts group can help manage your institution’s quest for technology with an overall solution that solves the price, performance and service equation. Our education account team routinely helps MIS directors, department heads and other school officials manage the tough issues they face in fulfilling technology initiatives, like standardization, compatibility, upgradability and costs.

While GATEWAYTM systems are built to order, our Custom Integration Service takes customization even further for qualified volume purchases. With CIS, you can incorporate some hardware and software components not normally available through Gateway, like specific network card settings, your own software, tape backup units, multimedia kits and more. Those features are pre-installed and tested, then the systems are shipped direct to you, ready to go when you unpack the cow-spotted boxes. You save the extra costs and time of having your computers modified later. It’s the turnkey solution of an MIS manager’s dreams.

Multiple Choice
Our people, our product line, our service and support - all are geared toward helping you get the computers you want, not the systems we want you to buy. Your Gateway account executive will work with your technology team to help assess your needs and equip your school with the technology you’ll need to lead into the next century. Buying computers from Gateway is like a multiple choice test, with no wrong answers!

  1. Full Product Line. Classroom presentations, Web-surfing, faculty mobility - Gateway is the perfect choice for diverse campus computer needs. We have a full line of computer solutions, from the innovative DestinationTM Big Screen PC/TV to Pentium® Pro processor-based desktops and the fully modular Gateway SoloTM series of portable computers.
  2. Fresh Technology. Because we build to order, we have no standing inventory of pre-packaged PCs with last year’s technology. Your systems can be built with the freshest components available, whether that means a bigger hard drive, faster processor or better graphics than what you currently have or the configuration you’re considering.
  3. Service & Support. Education clients have access to their own sales, customer support and accounting people, as well as a dedicated, toll-free technical support number seven days a week, 24 hours a day. Specially trained techs, including Certified Novell® Engineers and Microsoft® Certified Professionals provide technical support from basic questions to complex system concerns.
  4. Financing Options. Along with value-priced PCs, we offer a variety of flexible payment and leasing options to qualified customers, like net 30-day credit terms and leasing. Administrators, teachers and parents can apply for the Gateway 2000 Moola MasterCard® credit card administered by MBNA America® Bank, N.A. With the card, you can earn rebate points on all your purchases, including Gateway PCs. Those rebate points will accumulate in a Moola account and can be used for future Gateway purchases (certain restrictions apply).
  5. All of the above.

Making the Grade
Gateway 2000 is recognized for outstanding performance and quality. Our customer hardware support, in Sioux Falls, South Dakota; desktop and portable manufacturing divisions, and remanufacturing systems in North Sioux City, South Dakota, are ISO 9002 certified, an international standard of quality among global trading powers. Our components must pass rigorous quality and compatibility tests before being installed in a Gateway computer.

Our alliances with respected vendors like Western Digital, ATI, Sony, Intel and Microsoft help us build reliability into our PCs, decreasing the cost of ownership over the life of the system. These close, long-term vendor relationships also contribute to a stable product line by anticipating new technology and industry changes. As your friend in the business, we pass this knowledge on to you so you can make informed decisions about present and future technological needs and carefully plan product and technology transitions.

Shop around. Do the homework. The results shouldn’t surprise you. When compared to other name-brand computers, Gateway systems deliver the best overall performance and value. Call Gateway today and find out how we can put technology to work for your school.

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