Gateway 600XL PC Notebook Reviews

Gateway 600XL PC Notebook

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  • For the Wealthy

    Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
    Aug 14, 2002
    Pros: Huge Screen; Customer Service; 3d Video Processor
    Cons: Heavy; Not as fast as it seems like it should be for the price tag

    Summary: I am a college student and wouldn't have such a nice computer if it weren't for good scholarships. This illustrates a very key point concerning this machine: It is very expensive. All told I payed gateway almost $3000 including accessories, a 3 year ... read more

  • Great Performance for a Great Laptop

    Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
    Sep 2, 2004
    Pros: Gorgeous screen, speed, expandability.
    Cons: Some outdated features, heavy, terrible speakers, battery life.

    Summary: I bought this machine in May of 2003, so I have had a lot of experience with it. I was just about to start my freshman year of college. Last year I attended Dakota State University in Madison, South Dakota, one of the best computer schools in the ... read more

  • Great cust support

    Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
    Dec 22, 2003
    Pros: Service was great!!!
    Cons: Speakers under palms, but I don't use them anyway

    Summary: I have had a Gateway 600XL for about 4 months now, and while I had a lot of problems with the machine at first the service dept was great about trying to take care of it and eventually replaced the machine. The first problem I had was that some pixels ... read more

  • Great PC from a "Not So Great Company"!

    Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
    May 20, 2003
    Pros: FAST! Great screen.
    Cons: Heavy!

    Summary: I have had this PC for about a month now and I can give you the low-down. About 50% of my time is spent on the road so I needed a desktop replacement. This is it (to a point). If you have it hid behind your monitor with the port replicator plugged in, ... read more

  • Needed power and beauty... I got it.

    Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
    Mar 28, 2003
    Pros: *Elegant Design *Comfortable Keyboard *Large screen *Huge Hard Drive/RAM capability *Excellent support *Timely delivery
    Cons: *Very heavy *Badly placed speakers *Easily undone latch *only USB 1.1 *Can get expensive

    Summary: I am an architecture student at Harvard, in my last semester of school. I faced the problem of having purchased my last computer three years ago, and wanting to complete my highly computing-based education on something better than a P-III 800, but at ... read more

  • Cream of the Crop

    Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
    Mar 25, 2003
    Pros: No DELL "Dude" Guy
    Cons: You'll find out soon enough

    Summary: I have taken the 600x for a test drive the last couple of months and this is what I think of it. First the Specs. P4-M 1.7GHz 15.7" Display SXGA w/64MB ATI Video Card 512MB RAM 40GB Hard Drive Windows XP ... read more

  • Gateway 600x: The Big, Bad, Byte Crunching Machine

    Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
    Feb 2, 2003
    Pros: Beautiful 15.7" Screen, Two Modular Bays, Good Standard Features
    Cons: CD Player Controls/ Speaker Placement, No Modular Zip Drive

    Summary: I have taken the 600x for a test drive the last couple of months and this is what I think of it. First the Specs. P4-M 1.7GHz 15.7" Display SXGA w/64MB ATI Video Card 512MB RAM 40GB Hard Drive Windows XP Pro ... read more

  • Is it really worth it?

    Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
    Jan 29, 2003
    Pros: Huge Screen, Fast Processor, Good Sound, Decent Video Card, abundant memory and hard drive
    Cons: Customer Support, No S-Video, 2 hour battery life, sluggish hard drive speed

    Summary: Since I first got this computer, it has been nothing but problems. First, the computer freezes when you put it to sleep. You put it to sleep, and upon waking up, it freezes! This is very aggrevating, and after about 6 tech support calls and a visit to a ... read more

  • Gateway 600L: As much firepower as can possibly be infused in a laptop

    Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
    Nov 16, 2002
    Pros: Powerful, packed with features, huge screen, great value
    Cons: Bigger and heavier than most, but that's expected of a desktop replacement

    Summary: The Gateway 600L is GW's latest offering in the desktop replacement category. It is the base model of the 600 series, which includes the 600X and the 600XL. My 600 came with these features: Processor: Intel Pentium 4 M @ 1.6 Ghz ... read more

  • The True Desktop Replacement

    Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
    Aug 7, 2002
    Pros: speed, memory, performance
    Cons: price, weight

    Summary: As a student heading off to college in the fall, buying a computer was an important decision. Desktop or Notebook? PC or Macintosh? I've always used desktops in the past, but decided to go for the laptop this time around because of the added ... read more

  • Express Reviews
  • mean machine, oh yea...

    Rated Show by the Epinions community
    Oct 25, 2003
    Pros: Fast, DVD player a plus, Good wireless system, great big screen
    Cons: Kind of heavy, but I don't care. nothing else

    Summary: I was looking for a low cost laptop that had the power and O/S to be quick. I ended up with a gateway 600XL loaded with win XP Pro and a 2.4 gh CPU. It does everything I wanted, including a great DVD player/CD burner. It was a "class A refurb", so that

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