It's a pain to upgrade the ram later in laptops. usually voids warranty with these companies nowadays.
Any computer company can make a decent computer. I've seen excellent gateway builds, and junk ones.
That particular gateway sounds alright, but I see no need for a laptop to have Media Center on it. Most kids will only be using it for playing mp3s. Some colleges may also only support XP Pro (like my college).
That special software is to remind you that driver and product updates exist for your parts. It's nothing more special than what you could do on their website on your own.
btw, I just worked on a new compaq the other day, and I've never seen a big company actually tuck all of their cables away inside it and everything. Was excellent.
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Darn, oh well. Ill just wait for the warrranty to go out then in a year or so.
Agreed. Had a PC Gateway and it crashed after installing an HP PSC All-in-one onto it. That is why I was kinda scared anyway of gettign a gateay laptop in teh first place, but it works great so far. Imo, HP is the best USUALLy that you can buy, i only know that for sure for printers. I have seen crap jobs from gateway, such as their Pocket PC's.
How does that work? I'd think you could be running any windows and not be affected. please go mroe into detail on that. Plus, i think it is basically Windows Home Edition though except it has Media features on it you wouldnt find on a regular computer.
Oh, and i forgot to mention it has an S-video out for the media center for reg. TV's so that is the purpose of it halfway as well.
