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This Gateway laptop is a pretty good computer, IF (and that's a big "if") you know what you're getting. A lot of listings and online ads (like Amazon's) just say that this system runs on Windows Vista 64-bit, without any explanation as to what that truly means.) Apparently, 32-bit is the Vista "Gold Standard," and, as a result, many programs and peripheral devices (printers, mp3 players, etc.) will NOT work with Vista 64-bit, but only with 32-bit systems. I only learned of this unfortunate bit of info when I opened the laptop box and found a "notice" inside saying that "some programs and devices" might not work on my computer. I suppose a 64-bit system might be fine if you're extremely tech savvy, and can design/hack a work-around. But it proved to be a "deal-breaker" for an average consumer like me. The final straw was when I found out that a key piece of software necessary for my job would not run on the 64-bit Vista laptop. So I exchanged this computer for a different laptop running
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Before I go any farther, I wanted to note that the price as it exists at the time I wrote this comment is about 20% higher than you should be paying, if you look around.
That said, this is a great laptop for the price. I am a software developer, and I've been using this machine for work, which means that I am always running all of the anti-virus stuff that is required for our corporate network, plus a big bloated Office suite with all of the collaboration tools, at least one or two running instances of heavy development software, and a web browser... at a minimum. This little laptop takes it all in stride. I demand quite a lot of it, so I can say with confidence that it should be more than adequate for almost everyone looking at it.
Gaming is also very doable, the with ATI Mobility Radeon HD2600 GPU (with 512MB of dedicated video ram). You may not be running the most cutting edge games which have come out over the last few months, but I was running Microsoft Flight Simulator X Deluxe
That said, this is a great laptop for the price. I am a software developer, and I've been using this machine for work, which means that I am always running all of the anti-virus stuff that is required for our corporate network, plus a big bloated Office suite with all of the collaboration tools, at least one or two running instances of heavy development software, and a web browser... at a minimum. This little laptop takes it all in stride. I demand quite a lot of it, so I can say with confidence that it should be more than adequate for almost everyone looking at it.
Gaming is also very doable, the with ATI Mobility Radeon HD2600 GPU (with 512MB of dedicated video ram). You may not be running the most cutting edge games which have come out over the last few months, but I was running Microsoft Flight Simulator X Deluxe
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I bought this notebook a little over two months ago. In the last 2 weeks I noticed when I would put it in my laptop bag that there was a little rattle inside. I would not hear it all the time and when I opened up one of the little panel on the back I could not see anything odd. I am not a computer person, so other then something glaringly obvious, I wouldn't notice anything anyway. Last weekend when I started it up I got a blue screen error code and had to recover my hard drive...twice. Tonight, my computer would not start at all. This time my husband opened up the memory panel and there were two metal pieces floating around in the case. We could see where they came from, but we could not see how they were attached or a reason why they would come loose. One of them shorted out my motherboard. The burned spot is huge. We called Gateway and explained what happened they said it was "User Error" that caused the dammage and that I was out of luck. They were much more rude then that, but that
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