Are Gateway laptops any good?

From what I have heard, Gateway has been pretty much a poor computer manufacturer. Granted, this is the impression I got around 1 to 2 years ago, so they might have changed things around.
As for the tablet feature, would it really be something that you would use regularly? Because I can see it just being an expensive novelty if you just use it occasionally, and not for any really practical purpose that couldn't be achieved with a normal mouse and keyboard.
With that in mind, I have heard that their choice in a digitizer is a bit poor, with a low resolution(as compared to many standalone professional tablets), and there have been complaints about erratic cursor movement at random times.
If not for the integrated tablet, I cannot imagine that price being at all reasonable(although I find the price with a tablet pretty unreasonable too, but thats because I'm a penny pincher).

Jam it back in, in the dark.