Item : B0026BAI4Y Customer Reviews Good value, has minor flaws by .. endospores () The laptop is great. It's nice visually and has decent performance, especially after you uninstall the norton 360 that comes preinstalled on it, it gets faster. It's everything you can hope for in a work laptop: it's light, has a nice finish, nice HDMI display, dvd-rw, a powerful athlon processor, 3gb of ram that allows you to run almost anything, ATI graphics that allow you to run some games and most imaging software (got adobe CS3 on it and it runs nicely). However, Gateway messed up in a few areas. The battery, though 6-celled and 4400mah and yadda yadda yadda, barely gives you 2 and a half hours of life working like you normally would (no dvd) on a powersaving scheme. I've tried searching for a larger battery only to find there's no alternative, so get ready to be charging this laptop frequently. The thing that bothers me most is that the touchpad mouse sucks, big time. I've had many laptops in the past and even my 1995 inspiron's touchpad was better than this. It's not very sensitive, needs hard tapping to get the mouse moving/clicking and the surface isn't very smooth to scroll. Oh and the speakers suck. I don't use them much but i've had a few situations where i really needed the speakers to be loud and they're just not. Other than that, the computer's a great value for what you get and will serve you well if you don't mind the above points. Surpizingly a great laptop by .. Deimos (Alberta) Affordable, Very smooth performance and just overall great quality. I picked this up as a travelk notebook now it's one of my prime notebooks, it just keeps suprizing me, no problems just great performance and layout, great job Gateway.