Gateway Laptops?

[JoeDoe357357]

Hi everyone-

I was researching and looking to buy a laptop. Not looking for anything SUPER powerful. Have a good desktop at home. My question is has anyone used or evaluated a gateway laptop? Are they good? Good in a sense that it won't break down right after the warrenty ends. Cause gateway is running a really good deal on a laptop and i'm trying to decide whether to buy it or not.

If you guys want to know the spec. here's the link

http://www.gateway.com/home/prod/Config.asp?seg=hm&short=s1400ls

Any feedback would be awesome. Again not looking to do anything extreme with it. Just be able to run office programs and stuff.

Thanks.

 

[Ryan]

That seems like a good deal. My parents have a gateway laptop that I use for school all of the time, and it's awesome. It looks like a good deal for a basic laptop. BTW - have you looked @ their refurbished section? They have some even better deals there

 

[LoneWolf1]

TTT for more feedback on the quality of Gateway Laptops.

 

[corkyg]

Glad you asked! I got a Gateway 9300cx in the summer of 2000, and it has been the best computer I have ever owned (includes 4 other laptops.) It came with 98Se, then a free upgrade to ME, and now its running XP Pro. In all honesty - I have toted this 15.6-in LCD moose to Europe, all over the USa and it has never, ever locked up, frozen or crashed. It is one amazing laptop. It has a unique feature that few laptops have - two modular units - the CD/DVD/CDRW option (commmon to most) but also the floppy is modular and can take a LS-120 or a second HDD! That is a feature I would never be without. It lets me close my main HDD to a backup drive, remove it and put it away. That makes for 100%, very quick redundancy in case of a major glitch or virus. So far, that has not been needed, but I keep it up to date anyway.

As for the awesome 15.6-in screen - it makes DVD movies a cineramic experience while travelling.

The new ones may have faster processors, but they do not have the stellar features of the 9300cx.

 

[Burnt]

I have a Solo 9300 that I bought off of ebay (barebone). I just had to add a cd-rom, battery, ac, and floppy drive (if I wanted one). It only cost me about $500 total. Nice 15" screen, celeron 450, 20 gig HD. In my opinion I think gateway makes good laptops.