gateway m675 notebook
my boss decided it was time to upgrade our almost 4 year old notebooks to something more modern for the IT department, since we live on our computers. I told him my Inspiron 7?00 or is that an 8?00 - whatever, had another year on it. pIII, 256mb memory, 900mhz processor. that baby rocked. and it was a solid machine. my boss's noteook got cluttered and even with 512mb memory and a faster processor he was not happy. so, enter the Gateway M765 notebook
built on a desktop chipset, with a fullblown p4 and hyperthreading- and soon to be 2 gig of memory, who needs a page file? (I turned my page file off, and i currently only have 1 gig memory) the wide screen is very pretty, but not as high of resolution as my dell. big deal. i can adjust. built in media reader, interchanble to a floppy, dvd/cd burner, 60gb hd, integrated wireless, a FULL real keyboard with the 10 key (use that relestate the wide screen gets you) AND onboard firewire with about 5 usb2 ports. this baby is a work horse. I think the slowest thing in this is the 5400? rpm hd, but after it spins up I'm good to go. a REAL upgrade.
so, we go to purchase these from gateway, and like 2 days before we place the order gateway stops selling them. odd. i thought everyone wanted a 10lb notebook that has 1 hour of battery life. I know I do! so, we bought two of them off ebay (on with a slighty better screen, i made the boss take it, he is, after all, the boss.) and the average cost of each machine was about 1300$ before shipping. we'll pour another 400$ into each machine by getting docking stations, more memory, and a 3rd docking station for a dock out in our server room. all in all, several thousand less then gateway would have charged us days before, and our slightly used machines have a few scratches - i consider them worn in.
with my modded xbox controller in one hand, and mouse in the other, unreal 2k4 on this comptuer is very pleasant.
today we pulled 250 feet of fiber optics. soon we'll pull the other 200 feet and connect our outbuilding as an offsite backup facilty. i dont have time to play at work, instead i eat insulation!
built on a desktop chipset, with a fullblown p4 and hyperthreading- and soon to be 2 gig of memory, who needs a page file? (I turned my page file off, and i currently only have 1 gig memory) the wide screen is very pretty, but not as high of resolution as my dell. big deal. i can adjust. built in media reader, interchanble to a floppy, dvd/cd burner, 60gb hd, integrated wireless, a FULL real keyboard with the 10 key (use that relestate the wide screen gets you) AND onboard firewire with about 5 usb2 ports. this baby is a work horse. I think the slowest thing in this is the 5400? rpm hd, but after it spins up I'm good to go. a REAL upgrade.
so, we go to purchase these from gateway, and like 2 days before we place the order gateway stops selling them. odd. i thought everyone wanted a 10lb notebook that has 1 hour of battery life. I know I do! so, we bought two of them off ebay (on with a slighty better screen, i made the boss take it, he is, after all, the boss.) and the average cost of each machine was about 1300$ before shipping. we'll pour another 400$ into each machine by getting docking stations, more memory, and a 3rd docking station for a dock out in our server room. all in all, several thousand less then gateway would have charged us days before, and our slightly used machines have a few scratches - i consider them worn in.
with my modded xbox controller in one hand, and mouse in the other, unreal 2k4 on this comptuer is very pleasant.
today we pulled 250 feet of fiber optics. soon we'll pull the other 200 feet and connect our outbuilding as an offsite backup facilty. i dont have time to play at work, instead i eat insulation!
posted by forkev at 7/19/2005 07:43:00 PM
2 Comments:
thats pretty nice! you got a better deal than we did on the celeron compaqs. 2 grand for 2, over a year ago. and we still like them, but your getting a better deal.
a year has passed and once you factor in the maxed out memory and docking staion yours will still have costed about 600$ less.
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