Gateway MT6840 Core Duo Notebook Reviews

when looking for a new computer my husband and I searched everywhere for a new laptop. I had previously owned a HP desktop and hated it.

In the Fall of 2006 I started back to college after my kids were older and I felt I was ready.

It was a 14.1 Emachines N10, that I decided to buy at walmart for only $500. For a year, I loved it, but I decided I needed a bigger hard drive and screen, so the search began.

I bought this laptop, the Gateway MT6840 at Best Buy and as luck would have it my laptop was online at a lower price than in the store, Online was $499. and in the store it was I think $599....

The Gateway laptop is a great computer for the money.  The wide screen makes viewing easy.   The wider computer allows the keyboard more finger room.  It is like typing on a regular keyboard.  I am a transcriptionist and typing is my livelihood.  I have never been able to use other smaller laptaps due to the keyboard.  The Gateway is a good laptop for someone that types a lot.

This is the first laptop I ever bought by myself for myself and it is well-worth every penny I worked and spent for it!

It's a bit heavy at 6.4 lbs especially when travelling to different countries and quite big with its 15.4" monitor but I don't mind. I specifically bought it with watching DVD's in mind and I enjoy it. I do most of my exercise DVD's with it in my room so I don't have to fight with anyone over the TV set.

I'm also a writer and editor so its speed (2.0 GHz) and capacity (2048 MB RAM and 160 GB HD) are very handy. I get to download the stuff I need and the research I make on the...

This is a nice computer and Vista has a lot of nice bells and whistles...if you want to regress to speeds slower that those that you may have experienced 4 ot 5 years ago.  (Actually my 4 year old Dell Optiplex desktop that I bought on ebay for a little over $100 runs circles around this computer in terms of performance.)  I added a flash drive to take avantage of Boost, but the incease in performance is imperceptable.  Speaking of imperceptable I contacted Gatway for advice/help on increasing the performance and their support is imperceptable.  The suggested options that would double the...

As someone who does a lot of traveling for business and heard that the Gateway laptop is very durable, I decided to buy this one. Sadly I have found it to be very slow, the screen glare can be hard on the eyes, and after 2 1/2 months the computer crashed right in the middle of working on a report. I called Gateway and they had me send it back to be fixed, telling me it would be of no cost and that I would have it back in a few days. Well it has been two weeks now and I still do not have my computer back. Upon  following up with them as to where it was they said it would be another week or so....

Just got this last week, to replace an outdated 5-year old Dell laptop.  So far, so great.  Love the 15.4 in screen with the ultrabright feature.  The keyboard is very ergonomic.  Got it with Windows VIsta, too, which came standard.  Only complaint would be that the 4 USB ports are all piled on top of one another on the right side of the laptop - a little tricky to plug everything in if you actually needed more than one port at a time.