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    First thoughts & Upcoming Review - Gateway S-7700

    Discussion in 'Notebook News and Reviews' started by lowlymarine, Oct 15, 2005.

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    Just to give everyone a heads up, I finally recieved my review unit S-7700 today...or at least what was supposed to be an S-7700. The machine is curiously still identified as an M680 in the system properties, as you can see below. THe exterioir is definately that of the new S-7700N, however, so we won't fret too long on this for now.

    My initial impressions are mostly favorable. The inclusion of a docking station was nice, although I don't hve many severl-year-old Serial or LPT peripherals to try it out with. The USB ports on it work, though. Basic tasks like simple picture editing andword processing are very snappy, which is to be expected with a 1.73GHz Pentium-M. The 512MB of RAM is sparse, but the use of PC2-4 300 RAM is a nice choice. The 60GB 5400RPM drive is especially cramped with XP Pro and the recovery partition taken into account, and the 5400RPM speed will probably rear its ugly head in gaming given the RAM situation (haven't had a chance to try it yet).

    Full review in ~3 weeks.
     

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