http://www.gateway.com/systems/product/529668725.phpWell my new laptop came in and overall, it's loving awesome. There are some turn offs but it's still a great laptop. Anyways I got this mostly for academic work but I will be using it as a gaming laptop as well. Anyways onward to my review.
Specs: 9/10 CPU: 9/10
Well it has a triple core processor which is quite strange and it only has 2.1ghz but it works great overall. It's easy for me to run games at a constant framerate even though it doesn't hit 100fps like my desktop. Programs also load faster than stuff. :D
GPU: 9/10
Only reason the vid card lost a point is because it's a Radeon. I'm prejudice against Radeons, sue me. :3 On a serious note though it does a great job of rendering games and I can pretty much run any game on max settings.
Disc Drive: 8/10
Reads pretty dam slow which I found out when I was trying to install a game to my hard drive from a DVD. It might have been the hard drive but I doubt it. Overall it's alright I guess. There were some other people complaining about the disc drive too.
Hard Drive: 9/10
Pretty dam big for a laptop. 320 gigs will keep me pretty happy but I'll have to be stingy when it comes to downloading and installing crap. The reason it lost a point was because it came with a bunch of preloaded, crappy trial software.
Monitor: 9/10
It's bigger than most laptops and it's a 16:9 ratio but it runs at a weird resolution. 1366x768. It might just be me because I've never seen a monitor that uses that resolution until now.
Keyboard+Touchpad: 9/10
It works great overall, it's really smooth and responds accurately. There's also a scroll bar on the touch pad which is AWESOME. It only lost a point since you can't use the touchpad and the keyboard at the same time which makes playing fps shooters impossible. Good thing I have a usb mouse. :D
Performance/Package Deal: 5/10 OS: 10/10
Well this is my first time using 64 bit on Win 7 and I guess that extra bit of ram it can read really does help keep a constant framerate on games. Compatibility doesn't seem to be an issue so far other than the fact that there's no installer for Blender for 64 bit.
Heat: 3/10
This burns to hell even when it's idling. It has an exhaust panel to the left of it and if you put your hand next to it, it'll actually burn your hand. That's pretty dam hot. I'm afraid this will explode one day.
Pre-Loaded Software: 1/10
Well they decided to install a stuff load of trail software on the hard drive in which I'll never use so I spent about 10 minutes uninstalling a LOT of programs.
Stability: 1/10
With the purchase of this laptop I got 60 days free subscription to a good anti-virus program which picked up a data miner that was already on the hard drive. Let me get this straight... Their own program that they provided picked up a loving virus on their own computer? Wow...
Conclusion: Like I said this laptop kicks major ass but what really pissed me off was that they had a data miner on the hard drive. I don't think it was intentional like they were gonna steal my passwords but still. They really need to check for that kind of stuff. Anyways it's on sale right now on tigerdirect.com so I would recommend buying one if you can. Just make sure to scan the bastard when you get it.
EDIT: 9/10 Built In Mic: 9/10
Quality is great but it fades out on your last word so you have to kinda mumble after you finish a sentence. Weird eh?
Battery: 9/10
Lasts about 2.5 hours. Meh, it's better than my old laptop that only lasts 1 hour.
Webcam: ?/10
I'll probably never use it...
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