Gateway P-7811FX NICE!

[Kenyth]

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage....=1211587727985


My first nice laptop! This thing is sweet! The hardware it comes with is unbeatable at the price range. A beautiful 1920 x 1200 screen! The only downsides? No Blueray or Bluetooth, it's a really big 17 inch laptop that weighs close to 11 lbs., it can get really hot, the battery dies quick, and the speakers are average at best. All to be expected to some degree on a laptop with this hardware.

If you're looking for a high end laptop for a good price that doesn't look like a teen geek toy with flames and alien head logos, then this is it.

[mrtr33]

nice pickup.

I'm still using a Gateway 450ROG, it's reliable, although it putters along kinda slowly.

I was checking out the specs - does it have a wireless card? I've never used 64-bit Windows OS's. How could you compare the difference?

[Silencei2]

Nice laptop. I work on these all the time and they got best bang for your buck on some review websites. 17" is a little big imho but if it's going to be sitting still for the most part, no need to worry. I had the older Gateway MP78__ series. Great laptop and doesn't come with a bunch of useless junk. I recently gave it to my parents and got myself a 15" Lenovo.

I was checking out the specs - does it have a wireless card?

This laptop does have wireless, even comes with the next gen wireless, "N".

64bit Windows is not really different than 32bit except the limitation of 32bit being 3.5 gb of RAM. Microsoft minimized the compatibility issues between the 2 operating systems by making the 64bit OS virtualize or simulate the 32bit operating system for certain programs. Only problem I ever ran into is older games. If you just word process, go on the internet and check email then its no problem at all. As long as you don't try using extremely old programs or games for that matter, you'll be fine.

[BigMacFU]

Sorry, just can't get on the winblows train.

[Kenyth]

There are a lot of older apps that won't run on 64 bit vista. Many of them won't be getting patched either.

[Kenyth]

Sorry, just can't get on the winblows train.

Regardless of OS bias, you have to appreciate the hardware on this thing dude. I've only met one person with a need for more hardware, and his needs were specialized. He's an instructor and needs a laptop with 8GB of RAM because he uses multiple virtual machines. 4GB of RAM just doesn't do it in that scenario.

[Silencei2]

Regardless of OS bias, you have to appreciate the hardware on this thing dude. I've only met one person with a need for more hardware, and his needs were specialized. He's an instructor and needs a laptop with 8GB of RAM because he uses multiple virtual machines. 4GB of RAM just doesn't do it in that scenario.

Agreed.

Ram is so cheap nowadays you'll find desktops with 6-8gb of RAM. More RAM the merrier, you can multitask more, do some photo editing, some video editing, etc. You also can disable your paging file and free up a little space on your hard drive and also prevent Windows from trashing your hard drive by moving files back and forth.