New Gateway Laptop
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Woot! I got my new Gateway 450X laptop this week. Very cool. It has a very nice 15 inch display, good keyboard, and touchpad. Since it has been a topic in the Lounge lately, it shipped with a full OEM OS disc (XP pro). I've already put it to use in the field doing some industrial PLC programming (Mitsubishi A-series with GX developer, for those keeping track at home) and it performed with flying colors. Here are the specs: Processor: Intel® Pentium® M processor 1.6GHz Memory: 768 MB - 256MB DDR SDRAM installed + 512 MB from Crucial Hard Drive: 40GB Ultra ATA Hard Drive Floppy Drive: Modular 3.5" Diskette Drive Optical Drive: Modular 24x/10x/24x CDRW and 8x DVD combo Expansion Slots: Two Type II or One Type III PC Card Slots External Ports: (2) USB 2.0, IEEE 1394 (FireWire), VGA, Parallel, Serial, and PS/2 Operating System: Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional Screen: 15" SXGA+ TFT active matrix Video: ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 w/ 64MB DDR video memory Keyboard and Mouse: Full-Sized Keyboard and EZ Pad® Pointing Device Multimedia Package: Integrated sound and stereo speakers, headphone/speaker jack, line-in, and mic jacks Battery: High-capacity lithium ion battery with AC pack Modem: Integrated V.92 56K Modem Network Adapter: Integrated Intel® PRO 10/100 VE network connection Wireless Networking Adapter: Integrated 802.11g wireless networking card
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Woot! I got my new Gateway 450X laptop this week. Very cool. It has a very nice 15 inch display, good keyboard, and touchpad. Since it has been a topic in the Lounge lately, it shipped with a full OEM OS disc (XP pro). I've already put it to use in the field doing some industrial PLC programming (Mitsubishi A-series with GX developer, for those keeping track at home) and it performed with flying colors. Here are the specs: Processor: Intel® Pentium® M processor 1.6GHz Memory: 768 MB - 256MB DDR SDRAM installed + 512 MB from Crucial Hard Drive: 40GB Ultra ATA Hard Drive Floppy Drive: Modular 3.5" Diskette Drive Optical Drive: Modular 24x/10x/24x CDRW and 8x DVD combo Expansion Slots: Two Type II or One Type III PC Card Slots External Ports: (2) USB 2.0, IEEE 1394 (FireWire), VGA, Parallel, Serial, and PS/2 Operating System: Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional Screen: 15" SXGA+ TFT active matrix Video: ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 w/ 64MB DDR video memory Keyboard and Mouse: Full-Sized Keyboard and EZ Pad® Pointing Device Multimedia Package: Integrated sound and stereo speakers, headphone/speaker jack, line-in, and mic jacks Battery: High-capacity lithium ion battery with AC pack Modem: Integrated V.92 56K Modem Network Adapter: Integrated Intel® PRO 10/100 VE network connection Wireless Networking Adapter: Integrated 802.11g wireless networking card
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Duke Leto AtreidesSounds nice! :) How much did it set you back? I've been very happy with my HP laptop but only have two minor problems with it. 1) I assumed ATI Radeon graphics meant something like a Radeon 7000 or so; instead it detects as some other "card" and I get crappy frame-rates in most games even though my AMD 1GHz with Radeon 7000 runs them fine. (The laptop is a 1.8GHz P4) 2) Awful battery life, it generally lasts less than 2 hours without doing anything stressful like playing games. I took it with me to a doctor's appointment my sister had (office was in Flint, she needed me to drive there) and it conked out after 1.5 hours of coding in VS.NET. I can see from the specs that yours does well against my first problem, but how well does it hold out while on battery? James "then when you go to bed...wait, you dont do that do you....ok....when you plug into the 'hive mind' to charge yourself, ill hack into your head" Nnamdi Onyeyiri over MSN
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Sounds nice! :) How much did it set you back? I've been very happy with my HP laptop but only have two minor problems with it. 1) I assumed ATI Radeon graphics meant something like a Radeon 7000 or so; instead it detects as some other "card" and I get crappy frame-rates in most games even though my AMD 1GHz with Radeon 7000 runs them fine. (The laptop is a 1.8GHz P4) 2) Awful battery life, it generally lasts less than 2 hours without doing anything stressful like playing games. I took it with me to a doctor's appointment my sister had (office was in Flint, she needed me to drive there) and it conked out after 1.5 hours of coding in VS.NET. I can see from the specs that yours does well against my first problem, but how well does it hold out while on battery? James "then when you go to bed...wait, you dont do that do you....ok....when you plug into the 'hive mind' to charge yourself, ill hack into your head" Nnamdi Onyeyiri over MSN
It cost about $2400 (US) with the extra memory. The video is very nice. I haven't installed any games so I can't report ont that. I did get the "high capacity" battery but I haven't used it enough on the battery to let it run out. I did use it sans plug for 2+ hours the other night, no problemo. PCWorld reported that the battery life for their tested model was 5 1/2 hours. That was one of the factors that sold it for me.
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Duke Leto Atreides -
Woot! I got my new Gateway 450X laptop this week. Very cool. It has a very nice 15 inch display, good keyboard, and touchpad. Since it has been a topic in the Lounge lately, it shipped with a full OEM OS disc (XP pro). I've already put it to use in the field doing some industrial PLC programming (Mitsubishi A-series with GX developer, for those keeping track at home) and it performed with flying colors. Here are the specs: Processor: Intel® Pentium® M processor 1.6GHz Memory: 768 MB - 256MB DDR SDRAM installed + 512 MB from Crucial Hard Drive: 40GB Ultra ATA Hard Drive Floppy Drive: Modular 3.5" Diskette Drive Optical Drive: Modular 24x/10x/24x CDRW and 8x DVD combo Expansion Slots: Two Type II or One Type III PC Card Slots External Ports: (2) USB 2.0, IEEE 1394 (FireWire), VGA, Parallel, Serial, and PS/2 Operating System: Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional Screen: 15" SXGA+ TFT active matrix Video: ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 w/ 64MB DDR video memory Keyboard and Mouse: Full-Sized Keyboard and EZ Pad® Pointing Device Multimedia Package: Integrated sound and stereo speakers, headphone/speaker jack, line-in, and mic jacks Battery: High-capacity lithium ion battery with AC pack Modem: Integrated V.92 56K Modem Network Adapter: Integrated Intel® PRO 10/100 VE network connection Wireless Networking Adapter: Integrated 802.11g wireless networking card
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Duke Leto Atreides -
Sounds nice! :) How much did it set you back? I've been very happy with my HP laptop but only have two minor problems with it. 1) I assumed ATI Radeon graphics meant something like a Radeon 7000 or so; instead it detects as some other "card" and I get crappy frame-rates in most games even though my AMD 1GHz with Radeon 7000 runs them fine. (The laptop is a 1.8GHz P4) 2) Awful battery life, it generally lasts less than 2 hours without doing anything stressful like playing games. I took it with me to a doctor's appointment my sister had (office was in Flint, she needed me to drive there) and it conked out after 1.5 hours of coding in VS.NET. I can see from the specs that yours does well against my first problem, but how well does it hold out while on battery? James "then when you go to bed...wait, you dont do that do you....ok....when you plug into the 'hive mind' to charge yourself, ill hack into your head" Nnamdi Onyeyiri over MSN
Try disabling wireless unless you absolutely needed it. Seems the best I can do in my HP/Compaq Evos are about 2.5 hrs unless I disable any integrated or PC Card Wireless NICs. Doing that just about doubles my battery life. Mark Conger Sonork:100.28396
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