Gateway 200 Series Laptops

[blackatom1]

I've been researching laptops for sometime, and the Gateway 200 series fits what I want, thin and light, in this case very thin, and it seems to have everything i would want in a laptop. But the LCD specs are 14.1" XGA TFT Active Matrix Color Display, 1024 x 768 resolution, 18-bit 262,144 colors. Why have 18-bit color? Has anyone seen this LCd and can tell me if it's decent or not? Seems to me w/ an LCD w/ that low of a color depth the viewing angle would suck and the panel is probably based on dated technology. I'm using it mainly for college and could careless about gaming, my desktop takes care of that. One more thing, how about Linux on these systems, i can't find crap about linux support on the 200 series.

 

[stateofbeasley]

I know three people at my law school who use Gateway 200X series. The LCD as far as I can tell is fairly average - it won't compete with an IBM FlexView (A31p and R50p notebooks) or the Dell Ultrasharps, but its good enough for work.

The only complaint I've heard about the 200X is the small, 3-cell battery not lasting very long (2 hrs or so).

Originally posted by: blackatom1
I've been researching laptops for sometime, and the Gateway 200 series fits what I want, thin and light, in this case very thin, and it seems to have everything i would want in a laptop. But the LCD specs are 14.1" XGA TFT Active Matrix Color Display, 1024 x 768 resolution, 18-bit 262,144 colors. Why have 18-bit color? Has anyone seen this LCd and can tell me if it's decent or not? Seems to me w/ an LCD w/ that low of a color depth the viewing angle would suck and the panel is probably based on dated technology. I'm using it mainly for college and could careless about gaming, my desktop takes care of that. One more thing, how about Linux on these systems, i can't find crap about linux support on the 200 series.