Cheap Gateway MT6840 15.4-inch Widscreen Notebook Computer PC

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I added 1GB of RAM (to 2GB) before even booting up out of the box, which I regret now, just for curiosity reasons, but so far I am very pleased with the twin-core MT6840. I had a Gateway MX7118 before and loved the widescreen display, and I wasn't about to spend a thousand or more bucks on a high-end laptop. I realize you get what you pay for usually, but if you're budget-conscious you could do a lot worse than the MT6840. Battery life is roughly 3 hours. Streaming HD TV video from ABC is flawless on the MT6840; the same video still stops and starts on my AMD Sempron desktop with 1.5 GB RAM. And so far, Vista has been a pretty pleasant experience. Like anything else new, it takes some getting used to.

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ive owned this laptop for about a year.

i never had any problems with it.

for the price i think its a great little laptop.

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What a bargain for the price..does everything I want it to. I run two businesses now when I'm on vacation, no lost business because of slow responses. Bright screen, easy keyboard, and the kids watch dvds in the car, during those long boring(?) stretches of Nevada Desert.. These are still selling elsewhere for $799 and up

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It is a great laptop if you can get it for under $200. I actually "downgraded" to XP when I first got it, which ran better then VISTA. A really good thing about this laptop is that you can extend it life and usefulness with a few upgrades. The easiest is swapping out the memory. It comes with 1 gig but you can add 4 gigs (2 sticks of 2 gigs)of PC2 5300 memory for about $45. You can also replace the Hard Drive with a SSD. But what I recommend is a Hybrid HD/SSD. I added a 500 gig drive for about $80. Not only is it a lot cheaper this way,but because the laptop has an older SATA the performance is almost going to be the same as a full solid state because of the bottle neck.

The laptop comes with a Intel Core-Duo T2450 which was a decent processor at the time but you can actually "upgrade" the chip to a Core 2 Duo T5200 (Socket M) without a bios update and a used chip will only run about $10. The best part about replacing the chip is that with a Core 2, you can run a 64 bit OS. So I am currently rocking 64 bit Windows 7 on my MT6840 and it is running great. Another benefit I found is that the new processor and HD runs a LOT cooler then what came stock.

So I would defiantly recommend this laptop to anyone looking for a decent affordable laptop with a solid upgrade path that can be done in parts.

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This animal is older than the hills. It actually came with Windows Vista. I only bout the critter for something to use while having another system updated. The selling point was being able to see the 15 inch screen which was a good size for the time. This wireless "g" is still in the main stream today and wireless N devices also accept it.

I have recently updated the ram form two .5GB to two 2GB sticks. The system recognized the update immediately. The system came with a restore partition but I never trust them and have external disks in case of a virus or anything physical. I also updated to Windows 7 and anticipate trying Windows 8.

Just a note that unless you are ept and can adjust to the exterenal wrld without help from the manufaturer this may not be the best way to go. Personally I find the challenge fun.