Gateway P-6831FX.

Gateway P-6831FX.

With powerful Intel® Centrino® processor technology and lush NVIDIA GeForce Go 8800 GTS graphics, this laptop delivers ultrafast performance and eye-popping gaming visuals sure to keep you on the edge of your seat.

Specifications

• Product Height
  1.7″
• Product Width
  15.75″
• Product Weight
  8.3 lbs.
• Product Depth
  11.75″
• Processor Brand
  Intel®
• Processor Platform
  Enhanced Intel® Centrino®
• Intel® Core(TM)2 Duo Mobile
• 1.67GHz
• WXGA+ widescreen TFT-LCD with Ultrabright technology (1440 x 900)
• 17″
• 667MHz
• 2MB at die Level 2
• 3GB
• Expandable
• Type of Memory (RAM)
  PC2-5300 DDR2
• Serial ATA (5400 rpm)
• 250GB
• Double-layer DVD±RW/CD-RW
• 2.4x DVD+R DL; 2x DVD-R DL; 8×8x8 DVD+RW; 8×6x8 DVD-RW; 4x DVD-RAM; 24×16x24 CD-RW
• Direct-Disc Labeling
  Yes
• Digital Media Reader or Slots
  Yes, digital media card reader
• Diskette Drive
  No
• Graphics
  NVIDIA GeForce Go 8800 GTS
• Video Memory
  Up to 512MB discrete GDDR3
• Personal Video Recorder (PVR)
  No
• TV Tuner
  No
• MPEG
  Yes
• Built-in Web Cam
  Yes
• Modem
  56 Kbps* ITU V.92 *Capable of receiving 56 Kbps downloads. However, current regulations limit download speed to 53 Kbps.
• Networking
  Built-in 10/100/1000 Mbps Gigabit Ethernet LAN (RJ-45 connector)
• Wireless Networking
  Built-in high-speed Intel® Wireless Wi-Fi Link 4965 network connection (802.11a/g/n)
• S-Video Outputs
  None
• Additional Audio/Video Connectors
  HDMI
• Audio
  High-definition (2-speaker configurable)
• Speakers
  Built-in
• PCMCIA Slots
  1 ExpressCard/54
• USB 2.0 Ports
  3
• IEEE 1394 FireWire Ports
  1
• Parallel Ports
  None
• Serial Ports
  None
• Game Ports
  None
• Notebook Weight
  Standard (more than 6 lbs.)
• Battery Type
  Lithium-ion
• Pointing Device
  Synaptics touchpad with vertical scroll
• Operating System
  Windows Vista Home Premium
• Included Software
  Microsoft Works 9.0, Money Essentials; CyberLink Power2Go; Gateway BigFix; Adobe Reader 8 and more

This is a gaming laptop, and the one of the best parts about this notebook, is the fact that you can upgrade most of the parts in it. It has a secondary hard drive bay, so you can put another 250 gb hard drive, you can add more ram, and unlike most laptops, you can upgrade its processor from that crappy T5500 to a T9300.

Pros

• Excellent specifications (great performance per dollar)
• Very upgradable - access to components without a complete tear-down
• Attractive and well-made
• Highly targeted at the PC gamer (gets it mostly right)

Cons

• Put aside some money for an eventual CPU upgrade
• Poorly thought out disk image (too much bloatware)

PCMark05	Out of the box
System Test Suite	4,598 PCMarks
HDD - XP Startup	8.08 MB/s
Physics and 3D	138.72 FPS
Transparent Windows	2122.83 Windows/s
3D - Pixel Shader	340.8 FPS
Web Page Rendering	1.47 Pages/s
File Decryption	45.07 MB/s
Graphics Memory - 64 Lines	1084.42 FPS
HDD - General Usage	4.69 MB/s
Multithreaded Test 1 / Audio Compression	1657.5 KB/s
Multithreaded Test 1 / Video Encoding	290.27 KB/s
Multithreaded Test 2 / Text Edit	92.06 Pages/s
Multithreaded Test 2 / Image Decompression	22.91 MPixels/s
Multithreaded Test 3 / File Compression	3.83 MB/s
Multithreaded Test 3 / File Encryption	20.63 MB/s
Multithreaded Test 3 / HDD - Virus Scan	21.79 MB/s
Multithreaded Test 3 / Memory Latency - Random 16 MB	7.78 MAccesses/s

For more information on this laptop visit www.gateway.com