GATEWAY M-152XL REVIEW - THE COMPRESSED MULTIMEDIA MOTIVATING FORCE

The Gateway M-152XL is a compressed multimedia motivating force aimed unswervingly at the Toshiba A305, HP Pavillion dv6700, or Dell M1530. Each of these laptops proffers the same indispensable features. So how healthy does the Gateway pile up to the rest? Examine on to find out.

Design
The Gateway M-152XL has an extremely trendy design with lustrous metallic blue paint contrasting the brushed aluminum spruce around the casing of the laptop as well as the keyboard. The optical drive, subsequent the smooth and modish theme is niche loading, just like the Dell M1530 or Apple laptop line. Build quality is higher than average with a hard-wearing framework that feels pretty rock-hard in your hand. The plastic is sturdy, flexing little under constant worry and producing no squeaks when tossed roughly.

Performance
The on the whole system recital of the Gateway M-152XL laptop is outstanding, with its Intel Penryn T8300 processor and ATI Mobility HD2600 graphics accelerator card. This amalgamation provides you abundance of performance to play most up to date games even on standard settings, and more than adequate power for day to day tasks. The 7200rpm Seagate hard disk memory drive helped load media applications like the Windows Media Center devoid of holdup, and gave the laptop a very snappy feel when just tooling roughly. In comparison to the other laptops in this price sector, the Gateway M-152XL clearly leads the crowd in on the whole system recital from what we have witnessed in our testing.

Display eminence is run of the mill, with an awfully constricted viewing perspective which can make enjoying a movie or game thorny until you hit upon a sweet spot. The keyboard on the Gateway M-152XL laptop was very nice, with a very rock-hard sense when typing. Thermal presentation of this laptop was brilliant, in commission at surreptitiousness decibel levels during for the most part of activities, and placidly ramping up in momentum under benchmarks. For possessing a customary, non-extended battery power pack, the Gateway M-152XL carries in good off the grid string time of 2 hours and 35 minutes while sprinting on the Windows Vista "Balanced" profile.

Conclusion
The Gateway M-152XL serves a great treaty of presentation and very high-quality build standards for a very striking price. While the customary retail price of this laptop is $1,299, at the time of this writing Gateway is at present are selling it on their website with an additional $250 discount, straining the concluding price down to $1,050. The solitary big grievance I had with our review variant was the paint imperfection.