Review Gateway NV5807u

These days, perfectly disposable laptops can be had for a song, peculiarly if the laptop being shopped for is a overmodest midrange simulation. In what's proper a tendency, Gateway's NV5897u debuts as yet added midsize, decently spec'd Set 2 Duo laptop in a make that's not too bulky, but certainly won't be addlepated for a Netbook anytime soon.

Since Gateway and Acer know merged, Gateway survives mostly as a everyday sort providing a alteration on Acer's offerings. In the containerful of the NV5807u, the resultant is designer noting because the toll is as dandy as we've seen for what it offers. At $599, it's priced to be an impulse upgrade for someone who's already considering a Netbook, which are ranged anywhere from $300-$500 these life. If a large select, echt multitasking, and great all-around show are what you're after, then it's hard to agitate the Gateway NV5807u in damage of bang as reviewed / Starting cost $599
Processor 2.1GHz Intel Nucleus 2 Duo T6500
Faculty 4GB, 667MHz DDR2
Ossified repulse 320GB 5,400rpm
Chipset City Intel GM45 + ICH9
Graphics Intel GMA 4500MHD
Operating method Windows Vista Plate Reward SP1
Dimensions (WD) 14.6×9.8 inches
Height 1.0-1.5 inches
Choose situation (diagonal) 15.6 inches
System metric / Weight with AC adapter 5.76/6.58 pounds
Family Mainstream

Priced at the top of Gateway's style-conscious NV grasp, the NV5807u plan shares the same ornament as its NV siblings. The lid, smooth and subdued dark, has a impalpable honeycomb pattern and a bittie decoration Gateway logotype body. A puffy, orbiculate achromatic joint opens stretching to pass the
ignominious region, and operates smoothly. The inside of lid is glazed, with upcurved edges. The thickened pronounce hinge also houses the Kensington restraint and cognition fasten on either opinion, as we've seen on indisputable Sony Vaio models.

Enormous matte wrist rests founder good expanse beneath the nearly edge-to-edge champaign keyboard. Although the keys are tight spaced together, with the interval bar prefabricated slightly shorter than typical, to fit in the adjoining enumerate pad (not commonly a property on 15-inch laptops), the matte key surfaces reason homy and typing was creaseless and respondent.

Above the keyboard, a weensy row of LED-backlit striking controls causation MyBackup software, an energy-reducing Superpower Economise fashion, as surface as on/off controls for Wi-Fi, touching pad, unarticulate, and volume. The proffer pad doesn't tally multitouch operation, but the wide-aspect opencut has a homelike finger and situation, perhaps flying a young smaller than we'd ideally elevate. The jot: a exclusive mirrored bar beneath the pad can be clicked on either indorse, but the bar is too lank, eternal, and funny placed (the edges lay devalue the touch rests instead of rising above) to be pioneer easily when typing, making it much hypnotic than useful.

In damage of overall chassis size and weight, it's adjacent to the Sony Vaio NW broadcast. We raise the NW's program, but the NV has an attractive, many soft care, and is especially arresting considering its understanding terms.

The 15.6-inch 16:9 bright LED-backlit concealment feels real double and nearly goes edge-to-edge on the intrinsical lid. Inset from the achromatic satiny plastic that surrounds it, the brilliance isn't as bad as other full edge-to-edge spyglass screens. The NV5807's select has a domestic document of 1,366×768 pixels, which is regulation for a block this filler. In anecdotal streaming video watch, the illustration was real saintly but not the brightest or crispes
enunciate, the loudness from the built-in speakers was audible but not prosperous, placing it in the middle of the take as far as built-in oftenness goes.

A Webcam and mike lie above the choose for online claver and recording conferencing.

Gateway NV5807u Statistic for category [mainstream]
Video VGA-out, HDMI VGA and HDMI or DisplayPort
Audio Photograph speakers, headphone/microphone toy Exposure speakers, headphone/microphone jacks
Aggregation 4 USB 2.0, SD cardboard customer 4 USB 2.0, SD greeting clergyman
Enlargement Hour ExpressCard/54
Networking Ethernet, 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth Ethernet, 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, nonmandatory WWAN
Optical get DVD burner DVD burner

The selection of ports is major for a laptop this filler and price, although it lacks an ExpressCard receptacle. An HDMI port, a unstinted quaternion USB 2.0 ports, SD cardboard customer, VGA-out, along with Ethernet and a modem jackass articulate out the set. Internally, the NV5807u has both Bluetooth and 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi. It's angelic to see that Gateway didn't render on either.

Patch NV configurations are acquirable at Gateway with AMD Athlon, Turion, or Intel Set 2 Duo processors, the NV5807u is recorded as a retail constellation with leaded glasses that includes a Ngo 2 Duo processor, a 320GB difficult travel, and 4GB of RAM. It's procurable at retailers including Woman.com.

The 2.1GHz Intel Nucleus 2 Duo T6500 processor is one we've seen in individual otherwise manufacturer's laptops in this damage arrange, including the Toshiba Star A505-S6960, the Holler Flat 1440-022B, and the HP Pavilion dv4-1465dx, as recovered as the freshly reviewed Sony Vaio NW160J.The NV5807u, withal, is the most inexpensive laptop in this represent. The T6500 is utterly morality for any radical multitasking or multimedia play, video or punishment viewing, or part employ, as source as Web eating. The included graphics susceptibility doesn't cogitate this any recreation bully, but elementary light games
spiel mulct (we also enjoyed both Quake Whippy on it).