Archive for the 'Gateway' Category
Gateway NX270S Laptop Review
Saturday, April 7th, 2007When you’re shopping for a laptop, it’s easy to get caught up in the latest and highest-end features available. But for many users, those feature-packed, high-priced machines are overkill. If you’re looking for a laptop to just knock out documents, surf the Web, and manage your digital photos, the Gateway NX270S, which costs $699 ($549 [...]
Gateway NX570XL Laptop Review
Tuesday, January 16th, 2007Buying a business laptop usually requires some shopping know-how, staying within a budget, and finding vendors that will give you the wiggle room to swap out components. The Gateway NX570XL ($1,350 list) offers all that in a stable design that lets you use all of the older accessories (such as transferring the modular hard drives) [...]
Gateway NX570X Review
Tuesday, December 26th, 2006The Gateway NX570X is a midsize workhorse, and its flexible configuration options let you put together a system that ranges from the truly budget base price of $899 (currently $699, thanks to a $200-off promotion) to our reasonably upscale $1,368 review unit ($1,168 with same the promotion). HP’s Compaq Presario V6000T is a similarly configurable [...]
Gateway NX860XL Review
Thursday, October 19th, 2006When Gateway calls the NX860XL a desktop replacement, it’s not kidding. This massive multimedia laptop has a desk-hogging footprint, but the benefits of its grand scale are a giant, 17-inch wide-screen display and specs to rival those of a decent desktop gaming rig. All of this semiportable goodness doesn’t come cheap, however; our tricked-out version [...]
Gateway MX6214
Tuesday, September 19th, 2006Most laptops I review offer the latest and greatest in laptop components. But when the operative word is “cheap,” you’re looking at components that need to make the compromise between performance and features and price. My quest to find the cheapest notebook available landed me at my local Best Buy, where I once found a [...]
