Gateway M-1626
Notebook Specifications
Notebook: Gateway M-1626Processor: AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-60
Graphics Adapter: ATI Radeon Xpress X1270
Display: 15.4 inch, 16:10, 1280x800 pixels
Weight: 2.9kg
Price: 500 euro
Links: Gateway homepage Gateway notebook section
Average Score: 70% - average
Average of 2 scores (from 2 reviews)
mobility: 40%, workmanship: - %, ergonomy: - %, emissions: - %
Reviews for the Gateway M-1626
73% Gateway M-1626 Review
Source: Hardware Central 
PC prices have come way down? A thousand bucks will buy you a first-class desktop? Even less will buy you a capable notebook? This is incredible! What's that you say? Why yes, my name is Van Winkle. How did you know? Obviously it's no longer news that even non-tech-savvy, non-wealthy consumers are buying PCs at which even experienced power users can't sneer (well, can sneer only at their lack of gonzo gaming graphics or ponderous power supplies). The shelves of Staples or Best Buy or Wal-Mart or [insert retailer here] are full of such machines. Nor is it a shocker to find vendors better known for direct online and phone sales, such as Dell and Gateway, at your nearest superstore, often selling slightly different, prepackaged configurations of the systems you see on their Web sites.
11 von 15, Ausstattung 4 von 5, Leistung 3 von 5, Preis 4 von 5
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 06/17/2008
Rating: Total score: 73% price: 80% performance: 60% features: 80%
67% Gateway M-1626
Source: CNet
If you can look past the terrible battery life, the low-cost Gateway M-1626 is a decent midsize pick for a student laptop or for use as a secondary computer.
6.7 von 10, Preis gut, Display mangelhaft, Leistung mangelhaft, Mobilität schlecht
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 05/30/2008
Rating: Total score: 67% price: 80% performance: 50% display: 50% mobility: 40%
Comment
ATI Radeon Xpress X1270:
Only older games can be played fluently with these graphics chips (if they were not too demanding). Shared memory graphic cores in this category got the advantage of less heat production and longer battery runtimes. For office, internet, image processing, and video editing tasks these graphics chips are still useable without any restrictions.
>> Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.
AMD Turion 64 X2: AMD Turion 64 X2 is intended to be positioned against the Intel Core Duo was presented in 17. May 2006. The current consumption is not higher than with Centrino-Duo-notebooks (TL-45 with ATI Xpress and Mobility Radeon X300). This means, that approximative the same battery runtime and fan functions can be expected (with this chipset). However, the performance was 20% below the T2300 (1.66 GHz) due to the lower L2 Cache (Core Duo has 2048 Kbyte shared L2 Cache). Nevertheless, the performance is sufficient.
TL-60:
>> Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.
15.4": 15 inch display-variants are the standard and are used for more than the half of all notebooks. 15.4 inch display with 16:10 are the standard for notebook displays.
The reason why so many people like displays with medium size is, that this size is not exhausting for the eyes, does not need too much current and the laptops can be kept quite compact.
>> To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.
2.9 kg: This weight is average for notebooks. Therefore the numerous mass of laptops with 15 inch display fits in this class of weight.
70%: This rating is bad. Most notebooks are better rated. This is not a recommendation for purchase.
>> Further information can be found in our Notebook Purchase Guide.
