Gateway NE77206u laptop

This article contains a review of a Gateway NE72206u laptop. This article surveys its performance, clarifies some new terms, and gives an overall rating.

Shaun K. Mitchell

Blog: http://techstracks.blogspot.ca/

Title: Gateway NE72206u laptop review

Source: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2428295,00.asp

Everyone wants a computer that will satisfy performance hunger, and yet be sold at a good price at the same time. There is one eye catching laptop called the Gateway NE77206u. I am going to go over the review of this laptop, and explain the modern specs relative to its design.

The Gateway NE77206u laptop satisfies performance hunger and a good budget. This is a solid machine for surfing the web, word documents and sharing family photos.

The Laptop sports a 17.3 inch display and 7lb. chassis. While these aren’t great features for portability, meaning that its display is quite wide and you will have trouble dragging it around with you, it has plenty of ports on it and will move from room to room with you just fine.

The display is a 1,600 X 900 resolution, a step down from its more expensive laptop counterparts which are 1,920 X 1,080 pixels.   The laptop isn’t a touch screen (touch screen is a standard feature on nearly every new windows 8 laptop and desktop) and the audio is supposedly of abysmal quality as there is no bass to the speakers.

The track pad works well with windows 8. It supports features such as Pinch and rotate and flip, but uses a scroll strip to scroll up and down the screen. On the right side of the unit is an optical drive that supports dual layer DVD R/RW. It has a single USB 2.0 port and includes a headphone jack and a mic jack. On the left hand side of the laptop are a USB 2.0 port and a USB 3.0 port. A USB 3.0 port can handle speeds of up to 5GBPS.

For video the left hand side of the computer includes one HDMI out port, and one VGA out port.

For Ethernet, it includes a Gigabit Ethernet port, which is found on very few modern models to date. For wireless it supports 802.11N and has a Bluetooth 4 interface.

It has a 500GB hard drive and includes a quad core AMD A6-5200 Accelerated processing unit.

In summary the laptop is good for the price you would pay for it but it is not particularly top of the line. The laptop’s configuration has changed by little, compared to modern trends. It includes a USB 3.0 port which, as earlier mentioned, can support 5GBPS. Its DVD drive can support dual layering technology which is a feature of newer models. It doesn’t have a touch screen, which is not consistent with many new models of laptops out there. For the price though this isn’t an unreasonably priced machine.

This laptop was compared with other models similar to it. Of the models it was compared to the finding was that its battery lasts about five hours; just over one more hour than that of a Dell Inspiron.