Friday, May 24, 2013

Gateway nv55 laptop Review

gateway nv55 laptop
The Gateway (model: NV55C03u) laptop features an Intel Pentium processor, a 15.6″ display and Microsoft Windows 7.

The CPU powering this laptop is the Intel Pentium P6100. This is a dual-core processor built on Intel’s Westmere microarchitecture. It has 3MB of L3 cache and each one runs at 2GHz. This CPU is built using a 32nm process and only uses 35W. Of course, it’s a 64-bit processor. This laptop comes with 3GB of DDR3 memory and can be expandable to 8GB.

The screen is a 15.6″ TFT-LCD high-definition widescreen display with Ultrbright technology from Gateway. It has a resolution of 1366×768 and native support for 72op HD content. The screen is driven by Mobile Intel HD Graphics with 64MB-1696MB dynamically allocated shared graphics memory. This is not the laptop you want, if you want to play today’s games at their highest resolutions.

For storage you get a 320GB Serial ATA (SATA) hard drive. This one rotates at 5400RPM which is the low end of things. The optical drive is a multiformat DVD±RW/CD-RW drive with double-layer support. The media reader is on the cheap side with only support for SD and MMC formats, so make sure your camera uses one of these cards or you’ll have to always use the USB cable.

For networking you get a 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet LAN adapter for all your wired web needs. The wireless is your standard 802.11 b/g/n WiFi adapter, so you can surf the web at Starbucks. This laptop does have a 1.3 megapixel webcam and microphone to take advantage of those network connection to do some video chatting.

External ports include 3 high-speed USB 2.0 ports, 1 headphone, 1 microphone, 1 VGA port for connecting an external monitor and 1 HDMI port for connecting to your HDTV. You also get internal speakers, wow.

This laptop comes installed with Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit Edition. Other software includes Adobe Flash, Adobe Reader, Nero 9 Essentials and Cyberlink PowerDVD.

This laptop measures 10″x15″x1.3″ and weighs 5.7 pounds. It comes with a 6-cell lithium ion battery pack and an AC adapter.