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Gateway NV7922u 17.3-Inch Laptop (Cherry Red)
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- List Price:
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$679.99
- Our Price:
- $679.00
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Product Info
- Brand: Gateway
- EAN: 0099802765590
- Manufacturer: Gateway
Features
- 2.26GHz Intel Core i5-430M Processor with Turbo Boost Technology up to 2.53GHz
- 4GB DDR3 1066MHz Memory
- 500GB 5400RPM SATA Hard Drive; 8X DVD-Super Multi Double-Layer Drive
- 17.3" HD Widescreen Ultrabright LCD Display; Intel Graphics Media Accelerator HD
- Windows 7 Home Premium; Up to 3 Hours 50 minutes of Battery Life
Spotlight customer reviews:
- Customer Rating:
- Summary: Great computer at a great price
- Comment: I, like many others, searched high and low for laptops. I looked here and I looked there. I went to Micro Center and still wasn't satisfied with the prices. To get a similar laptop from Hp or Dell, you're talking a grand easy. The weight isn't bad in my opinion, considering it's a 17.3 incher. The screen is amazing. The led backlight really makes the screen pop. The amazon website had listed a lower, incorrect, screen resolution. It is in fact 1600 x 1900 and looks great. The buttons are pretty quiet when pushed and having a normal keypad to the side is nice. It doesn't have firewire or an expresscard slot but really, who cares. Having USB 2.0 pretty much makes that obsolete in my opinion. Firewire is not freakishly better, also in my opinion. I have a strong anti-apple product mindset also so this computer is really nice for me as it is extremely fast. I have a dell 3.2 Ghz dual core desktop with 3gb of ram running xp professional and it's a snail compared to this thing. I run Traktor Scratch Pro on it and it runs flawlessly, not skipping a beat and when you check the cpu meter it's hardly registering any stress on this machine. It's also so quiet I honestly never notice it making noise, not even a little. Sometimes, if it's quiet around you, you'll notice a little toot but really this thing whispers. The heat hasn't been an issue at all as well. I'll have it running for hours watching streamed movies and then set it on my lap and it's lukewarm at best. I really have nothing bad to say about this laptop. It's got HDMI for your audio/video feed to your HD. It doesn't have s-video but seriously I checked and on amazon it costs like 1.50 approx. for a vga to s-video adapter cord if you really want that feature. I'll tell you though, with a screen this lovely and large I think you'll have no problem watching movies right off this puppy. The integrated webcam and mic work seamlessly with websites. The sound from the speakers is pretty decent and if you get the right programs, you can adjust the volume even louder and they still sound pretty good for a laptop. I still hook up my amplified pc speakers while I'm at home and my wife and I watch a movie on it. I read the other guys review where he mentions having a problem with the USB drives. I've had no such issue and I'm guessing he just got a lemon. It happens and is understandable. I haven't had to deal with customer service, knocking on wood, so I can't give that a review. The multi-touch is kind of neat. Basically makes it easy to zoom in/out on any page, text, pic, and/or etc.. It's got dvd multi recorder drive instead of blu-ray but this also doesn't matter to me at all. They're not amazing enough nor cheap enough for me to give two squats of a thought to it until such time as it is the standard for everyone. Plus you can find an external usb blu-ray for around a hundred. The touch sensitive feature buttons up top of the keyboard area are neat and work really well, very responsive. Overall I seriously give this computer a near perfect score for my purposes. I love it and I hope it keeps kicking butt the way it has been.
- Customer Rating:
- Summary: Bang for the buck
- Comment: The good: i5 M430 processor. For the most part, I only run simple productivity software and surf the internet, but the speed is an improvement over my old P4 desktop. The 17.3" widescreen is bright and crisp. HDMI out is handy for streaming Netflix to the HDTV.
The bad: I would have expected some video editing software included (even if they were the 'express' or 'lite' versions), but at this price I shouldn't have. Also, some Window 7 compatibility issues with existing network printer. The driver is not available. The position of the pgup and pgdn keys on the numberpad is undesireable.
Overall: For the price point this system performs well, but I would have liked to have seen some more software.
- Customer Rating:
- Summary: Support is worse than worthless!
- Comment: I cannot get this computer to recognize my external USB hard drives, so I have been trying in vain for a week to get help from Gateway tech support.
The emails from my ordeal with Gateway tech support have gone something like this...
Me: Contacted tech support via website with a detailed description of the problem.
Gateway (next day): You need to register your laptop.
Me (15 minutes later): Fair enough. Done. Now, how do I fix the USB hard drive problem?
Gateway (next day): You did not fully complete the registration form. We need two contact phone numbers.
Me (5 minutes later): Done. Now, let's get to fixing this problem.
Gateway (next day): Try rebooting the computer.
Me (10 minutes later): Tried that. What's next?
Gateway (next day): Are you getting any error message when you boot the computer?
Me (5 minutes later): No error messages. What's next?
Gateway (next day): Is your USB hard drive listed under "Hard Disk Drives" in the "Computer" tab?
Me (5 minutes later): As I said in my original problem description, my USB hard drive is not listed in the "Computer" tab. What's next?
Gateway (next day): Do you see any splats, question marks, or red X in the device manager?
Me (10 minutes later): Nope. Now what?
Gateway (7 days 6 hrs 21 mins after initial report of problem): This problem is beyond our ability to solve. You will need to call Answers by Gateway for further assistance, at a rate of $2.95 per minute.
I'm boxing it back up and returning it.
This is the first and last Gateway product I will ever buy.
- Customer Rating:
- Summary: great computer
- Comment: The Gateway NV7922u laptop is an excellent computer for the price. You get an I5 processor and 500 gb hard drive. The laptop is lightweight, thin, solidly built and very fast, best of all is the 17.3 inch screen. The keyboard is well designed with wide letters and it seems to run cool. As other reviewers have said it is not designed for playing games but the graphics are good. On the negative side the power lights in the lower left hand corner is a little annoying and it comes with very little documentation. Once the power button is found on the right side of the computer it powers up easily and wireless connections are identified right away. You can't currently get a better computer for the price.
- Customer Rating:
- Summary: For the money, what's not to love? Great notebook!
- Comment: For several months I spent many hours a week researching notebooks, and like the person before me, I'm very happy I landed on this one. This is one great notebook, and you can't beat the price for what you get. Great big screen, good keyboard layout, blazing fast, quality build, I could go on and on. If you are looking for a notebook with top of the line specs and a big screen, you can't look any further. If you are out for a notebook that can also play the newest, graphics intensive games, this isn't for you.
*Update - I've been testing this notebook for gaming recently, and it seems to be holding its own. I've been using it for mostly older games, Counter-Strike, Counter-Strike: Source, Half Life 2, Sims 2. For these games, it plays amazingly well with all settings on high. A few downloaded demos of newer games went well, adjust the video settings and you may just be able to pull it off. Just wanted to throw this out there for those that are at least interested in casual gaming with this notebook.
