**FILE** Gateway CEO Ted Waitt poses by a display of Gateway's LCD televison screens playing DVD's at the company headquarters in Poway, Calif., in this Nov. 5, 2003 file photo. Acer Inc. plans to acquire U.S. computer maker Gateway Inc. for $710 million in a deal that will push the Taiwanese company past China's Lenovo Group as the world's third largest vendor of personal computers. Acer said Monday, Aug. 27, 2007 it is offering to buy Gateway for $1.90 per share in a deal expected to close by December, pending regulatory approvals in Taiwan and the U.S. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy, file)