GATEWAY M-7818U REVIEW

Gateway M-7818u – Attractive price plus stylish features

The newest Gateway machine M-7818u carries more of style at reasonable price than most other notebooks. You get remind of Toshiba Satellite E105 and HP Pavilion dv3510nr as these entire notebooks has similar well-rounded features. This is available absolutely from OfficeMax comes with great specification at not more than $779. Looked upon the performance it is adequate and you will not have any trade-off like other machine offers.

Design

Design of Gateway M-7818u is eye-catching and attractive. You will find Glossy Garnet Red lid sealed with its exclusive inFuse finish, to guard it from daily wear and tear. Beyond its flashy coat, M-7818u is clunker and the color moves to wrist rest part of keyboard and final touch has brushed-metal finish, which is compatible with silver keyboard. The black touch pad looks superb and open, however backlit is missing.

Performance

This budgeted notebook has fairly standard Gateway Configuration on great components. A 2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB of RAM remain heart of machine. Genuine Windows Vista Home Premium is the operating and has the storage capacity if 250GB. It weighs 6.28lbs and display is impressive with 15.4”. The most important is Integrated Intel Graphic Media Accelerator 4500MHD that keep the graphics moving. Other features are - Primary Optical Drive: 8x Multi-Format Dual Layer DVD-RW and Networking Options: 802.11a/g/Draft-N. Battery life with six-cell last 2 hours and 1 minute on tested DVD rundown that is actually average for the class mentioned.

Overall

Beyond doubts M-7818u is an attractive, budgeted-price mainstream unit, which will not disappoint, if you are good at comparing price and features. Overall it is a solid performance and robust configuration makes it a high-quality option for customers seeking a stylish 15-inch notebook, which would manage everyday computing jobs.

Pros

+ Fancy and sharp design
+ HDMI incorporated
+ Budgeted price

Cons

- Bad built-in speaker
- Low-light performance of webcam

Value For Money

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