Where Gateway and MPC collide

I am sorry. Acer or not, nothing has been said or done to show us in any way that we should have faith in the Gateway name any longer. If I buy something that has Gateway on it how am I supposed to know what that means. If Acer wants this part of their business to keep them up there near the top, then they need to make some changes and let the world know what those changes are. I have these thoughts in my mind... Gateway? Did they have some suspision that this part of their company was the rotten apple and they know it would take them down? Did they sell it knowing full well that they would no longer have to support the promises they made? Did some insider know that MPC would falter and this would be a good place to get rid of their commitment and not have to worry about it? How could MPC possibly think that buying this part of Gateways business would be a bvenefit to them? Where did they get the money and what did they actually pay? Anything? Is Gateway sueing for what is owed to them (something must be owed)? Does Gateway not care what is owed to them because it is much less than their obligation to the line of their company whose responsibility they passed off to someone else. How can it be possible, in this day and age, for such profoundly awful business practices to be allowed to affect so many Americans? Are we telling the world of business it is OK to make promises you are pretty sure you won't or possibly can't keep? I can see a small time business 'snake' taking advantage of a relative small handful of consumers (even those guys get caught and pay!), but for a company so big to be able to exploit and take financial advantage of such a large portion of the population is beyond me. Many of these customers are educational institutions that are funded with state and federal dollars that come from OUR tac revenues. We have hundreds of these Gateway laptops here, some only a year or two old. We have no access to specifications, drivers, or software installation packages or updates. Am I to understand and accept that I must turn around and walk away from a pile of technology for which thousands and thousands of dollars were paid for? Oh well? Qe sera sera? Is there no recourse or even the slightest assistance to make some useful use of the hard-to-come-by dollars we have invested? Will insurance cover the loss of invesment? Heaven please... give us some links to drivers and downloads. Give us a list of vendors for parts. Give us something so this misfortune doesn't set back our progresss and our ability to serve those that come to us to learn. This will take years of struggling and budgeting to recover from if we don't get some sort of help!!!