SlashGear JapanHow long will it be until the desktop PC is, for mainstream customers at least, pronounced dead? It’s been several years since sales of laptops exceeded their table-bound brethren, and ever since the numbers have increased and the places you can find notebooks for sale have grown more and more unusual.
Gateway are one manufacturer who have partly stepped outside of the usual retail channels with their range. Their UK arm were good enough to send me an MT6839b – a model currently sold in this country’s leading supermarket retailer Tesco – but equivalents of which can be found in other channels too. With a MRSP of £599 ($1,220 at today’s awful exchange rate) it’s a good example of an entry-point machine for families and students.
I can quite easily imagine my bank manager’s face if I went to him and said “I’m planning to work at a loss, if that’s okay, and build up a few million in debt” – in fact I can imagine the sound thrashing he’d give me – but things obviously work differently in games console land. We 
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