Strengths: Extremely portable, sleek looks, as good as it gets for a laptop this size
Weakness: No hyperthreading, but which small laptop does?
I had a Gateway 1.7GHz 450SX4 and was pretty satisfied with it even though I paid over $1800 for it. It was the thinnest silver notebook I could find in my price range at the time. The only thing I didn't like about the 450 was that it was a bit heavy and the keyboard looks super cheap (especially for a laptop this price), just plain ole gray plastic with no pretty lights. Being happy with the Gateway's performance and stability, I went to look for a sleeker, better-looking one. I found it in the 200 series. The 1.6GHz 200XL looks nice inside and out and is amazingly thin and light. I can easily put it in my backpack (with a neoprene sleeve covering it) and it weighs less than a college textbook. This laptop is fast enough for everything I use for it (encoding and burning DVDs, Adobe Photoshop, word processing, surfing the net, etc). Although it would've been nice if it was even faster with HT technology, but considering most centrino notebooks out there, 1.6GHz seems pretty fast already. The only comparable notebook in size and looks is the Sony Vaio PCG-Z1A, which costs over $2400 at only 1.3GHz. Btw, I bought the 200XL for less than $1400 brand new on eBay.
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Gateway 200XL Intel Pentium M Integrated DVD-R -RW
Strengths: Extremely portable, sleek looks, as good as it gets for a laptop this size
Weakness: No hyperthreading, but which small laptop does?
I had a Gateway 1.7GHz 450SX4 and was pretty satisfied with it even though I paid over $1800 for it. It was the thinnest silver notebook I could find in my price range at the time. The only thing I didn't like about the 450 was that it was a bit heavy and the keyboard looks super cheap (especially for a laptop this price), just plain ole gray plastic with no pretty lights. Being happy with the Gateway's performance and stability, I went to look for a sleeker, better-looking one. I found it in the 200 series. The 1.6GHz 200XL looks nice inside and out and is amazingly thin and light. I can easily put it in my backpack (with a neoprene sleeve covering it) and it weighs less than a college textbook. This laptop is fast enough for everything I use for it (encoding and burning DVDs, Adobe Photoshop, word processing, surfing the net, etc). Although it would've been nice if it was even faster with HT technology, but considering most centrino notebooks out there, 1.6GHz seems pretty fast already. The only comparable notebook in size and looks is the Sony Vaio PCG-Z1A, which costs over $2400 at only 1.3GHz. Btw, I bought the 200XL for less than $1400 brand new on eBay.
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