Gateway laptop $400 no rebate @ bestbuy

[wazzledoozle]

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp...ctCategoryId=cat01174&id=1149040741607

Sold out online but available at all local stores near me in Seattle.

 

[Skaven]

Anybody know anything about this laptop? The price is good - but I can't find any reviews or detailed specs.

 

[Wedge1]

I'm using one right now. Great laptop, in my opinion. Not for gamers, great for net surfers. Wide-screen + 1280 resolution is great. Thin and lightweight. Perfect for my purposes. Only downside is 256MB of ram and a single slot. So, to upgrade, I had to buy a single stick. So now I have 1GB in the laptop and the original 256 lying in my desk drawer.

 

[funboy6942]

OOS on line

 

[Slick5150]

Originally posted by: Wedge1
I'm using one right now. Great laptop, in my opinion. Not for gamers, great for net surfers. Wide-screen + 1280 resolution is great. Thin and lightweight. Perfect for my purposes. Only downside is 256MB of ram and a single slot. So, to upgrade, I had to buy a single stick. So now I have 1GB in the laptop and the original 256 lying in my desk drawer.

How's the battery life?

 

[tfinch2]

Originally posted by: Wedge1
I'm using one right now. Great laptop, in my opinion. Not for gamers, great for net surfers. Wide-screen + 1280 resolution is great. Thin and lightweight. Perfect for my purposes. Only downside is 256MB of ram and a single slot. So, to upgrade, I had to buy a single stick. So now I have 1GB in the laptop and the original 256 lying in my desk drawer.

It's got a single slot? I bought a stick of 512 and figured I'd just add it to make 768 (minus 16 for video).

I guess I'll have to bite the bullet and get a stick of 1 GB now. I'll have a stick of 256, and a stick of 512 laying around.

Originally posted by: Slick5150
How's the battery life?

I did some surfing last night on it, and it lasted more than 4 hours.

 

[Slick5150]

Originally posted by: tfinch2

Originally posted by: Slick5150
How's the battery life?

I did some surfing last night on it, and it lasted more than 4 hours.

Wow. If that's true, then this is a GREAT deal for an internet/word processing/etc laptop

 

[Jeffwo]

Guess they have these in stock again now.

Jeff

 

[Teetu]

i'm not too knowledgeable about laptop deals, but how good a deal is this? A non profit org wanted me to let them know of a good deal on a laptop, so I want something good but not too pricey (using it for basic stuff ie word processing, data entry, internet).

 

[Kwint Sommer]

I didn't know they still made 4200 RPM hard drives...

 

[Wedge1]

Originally posted by: tfinch2

Originally posted by: Wedge1
I'm using one right now. Great laptop, in my opinion. Not for gamers, great for net surfers. Wide-screen + 1280 resolution is great. Thin and lightweight. Perfect for my purposes. Only downside is 256MB of ram and a single slot. So, to upgrade, I had to buy a single stick. So now I have 1GB in the laptop and the original 256 lying in my desk drawer.

It's got a single slot? I bought a stick of 512 and figured I'd just add it to make 768 (minus 16 for video).

Well, now that I look closer, this model number is different from mine, but i'm betting it has a single slot as well. I have the mx3215, whereas this is the mx3230. My specs are here.
I cannot seem to find the specs for this current model.

 

[Wedge1]

Originally posted by: Slick5150

Originally posted by: Wedge1
I'm using one right now. Great laptop, in my opinion. Not for gamers, great for net surfers. Wide-screen + 1280 resolution is great. Thin and lightweight. Perfect for my purposes. Only downside is 256MB of ram and a single slot. So, to upgrade, I had to buy a single stick. So now I have 1GB in the laptop and the original 256 lying in my desk drawer.

How's the battery life?

Battery life is ~3 hours for internet surfing on a full battery.

 

[Flaredair]

Great little laptop. Purchase mine back in Feb and have been using it daily ever since.
The battery is approx. 3 - 4 hours depending on what you are doing. Nice machine for the money, also has (1) year warranty.

 

[imported_tkkidd]

The notebook's predecessor, nx200 was considered best among $600 range, affortable Notebooks.

It seems like the only difference is the CPU on board. 370 instead of 360.

I prefer Celeron over Sempron on budget notebooks, becaues it consume less power.

ttp://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.aspx?i=2625&p=4

 

[wazzledoozle]

Bump its back.

 

[DarkManX]

does it have a PCMCIA slot? or an express one?

 

[wazzledoozle]

Yep

 

[Al Neri]

OOS again

 

[Al Neri]

Can you order it online and pick it up at the store?