They call it convergence: Televisions become more like personal computers, and vice versa. It's usually just speculation. But starting this spring, you'll be able to buy yourself a big slice of convergence in the form of an innovative PC-TV combination system called Destination, from Gateway 2000, a leading mail order computer maker. It will cost about 54,000. The new system's destination is your family room—or TV room, as millions of Americans often refer to it. Watching TV is a laid-back, social, big-screen activity. Computing is an intense, individual, small-screen activity. So Gateway had to devise a PC that not only doubles as a big-screen TV but also works like a computer, even from the couch.
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