I love capitalism. It encourages competition which causes companies to constantly one-up each other and produce better and better products at lower and lower prices, hence the recent spurt of cheap, powerful, and, surprisingly, good-looking laptops all right around the $500 mark such as Toshiba’s new a500/u500 line and Acer’s new Aspire laptops, and between the 3, I’d say these new Gateways are the prettiest, just look at this:
Tech Specs
The 15.6 inch models get an LED-backlit display with 1366 x 768 widescreen resolution, they’ll take up to 4GB of DDR2 RAM, a 320GB hard drive, a DVD optical drive of some sort, multi-card reader, 802.11a/b/g/Draft-N, VGA and HDMI out, four USB ports, a 6-cell lithium ion battery (no word on how long a charge lasts), and Windows Vista Home Premium. They’re available in: NightSky Black, Midnight Blue, Cherry Red, and Coffee Brown. They start at $499 for the 2.1 GHz AMD Athlon 64 with Radeon HD 3200 graphics, while the 2.1GHz Intel Core 2 Duo with GMS 4500MHD runs $599.
Additional Resources
Official Gateway page for the NV series
2 responses so far ↓
1 ROBINSON // Jul 9, 2009 at 6:15 pm
this computer takes forever to start other than that is nice
2 Keish // Nov 5, 2009 at 10:08 am
I purchased this computer in June. In September, the display screen went completely white. I sent it back to Gateway for repair, I paid for the shipping. I called to check the status every week to be told the part isn’t in stock. After a month of waiting, I finally get a call from Gateway informing me that the part is on backorder and they would like to offer me a replacement computer equivalent to the one I purchased. I accept the replacement and received it on Tuesday, November 3. Would you believe the replacement didn’t work either? Wouldn’t even boot to Windows 7. So, I was offered, yet again, another replacement. I’m not paying to ship the replacement back so I have to be inconvenienced, again, and wait to receive a shipping label in the mail. Then I have to ship it back and when the replacement is received, then I will receive the second replacement. I’ve never been so disappointed in a product. Be smart don’t buy this machine.
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