Packing a laptop with a full-sized keyboard, screen bigger than many use with their desktop and the sort of specs that gobble through even the most capacious of batteries has always struck me as cheating a little. Call me old fashioned, but I do like my notebook to be portable and my desktop to be sturdy; Gateway, however, weren’t willing to stop at just calling me names. They sent over their 17-inch P-6831FX, resplendent with orange pinstripes and dedicated NVIDIA GeForce graphics, to show that just because a laptop is large, it doesn’t mean it can’t be agile too.
Looking at the spec list, it’d be difficult to find the P-6831FX too lacking. An Intel Core 2 Duo T5500 CPU running at 1.66GHz, 3GB of RAM and a 250GB 5,400rpm Serial ATA hard drive are coupled with a GeForce Go 8800GTS graphics card bearing it own 512MB of GDDR3 memory; that pushes the 17-inch WXGA+ Ultrabright display up to 1440 x 900, or alternatively squirts out via the HDMI v1.2 port. An 8x dual-layer DVD re-writer, fingerprint reader, 1.3-megapixel webcam, a/b/g/draft-N WiFi, Bluetooth 2.0+EDR and gigabit ethernet round out the hardware, and OS duties are handled by Vista Home Premium.
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