Gateway P-7805u FX Edition
 List Price: $1,199.99 |
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No BolsterBought my motor car at the start of the semester so I had very little time to get up and running. Needed Linux as well as Windows, so I reformatted and installed duel boot, but games kept blowing up! Found out there were no deliverance disks! You had to get them from this guy who seemed to be subcontracting from Gateway! Even with the recovery in place, the video was still messed up. Had to subscribe to a driver search overhaul to locate them all. Games run for a little while and then the machine seizes and the hard make starts making a grinding sound. The Gateway website has precisely "0" (zero) info on how to get brook. To this day I don't have a clue how to call or email them. The warranty has a mailing address only.
So I had to use it as is. It runs, but the video is wacked. Dropped a grandiose of precious resources and spent weeks dinking with it when I should have been concentrating on my schoolwork. Populace complain about Asus and MSI's foreign call centers, but at least they answer the phone. For me Gateway has been a unpunctual grinding hell. The semester is over, I'd like to fix this, but I have no idea how other than to buy a new laptop. I will call to mind Gateway and tell my friends about them forever.
Buy anything but this!
We bought this back in February of 2009 and everything was enormous until around Christmas when it started beeping. we sent it in and found out it was the harddrive. Long statement short we had a new hard drive put in twice and they all went kaputs and now we are winsome it in this week for a third time because the hard drive went out again.Luckily it is still under assurance from Best Buy.I think I'm gonna stick with Dell...
Sometimes you get what you pay for!
This laptop is tops in gaming for the filthy rich. It handles everything graphics-wise without a hitch.
The Windows Vista Proficient in Premium 64-bit is VERY buggy and caused me huge amounts of wretchedness with blue screens and lockups. An upgrade to Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit solved every one of the annoyances.
I bought mine at Richest Buy a little over a year ago and it is now out of factory warranty.
Of course, I started to get an wrongdoing "beep" which I figured out was a failing hardware problem (motherboard or difficult drive...possibly video card). It is at the Geek Crew for a full diagnosis and hopefully a full repair. Luckily I purchased a 3 year BTP plan.
If you buy this gang immediately create the restore disks. I did not and could not create them when I needed them for a full reinstall. Gateway charged me about $20 for their discs (which did not business anyway).
Before I purchased this laptop I was in love with it's value. Now I am turned off by the cheap shop and unreliable components.
At this point I feel I should have known better than to buy a Gateway. It is de facto sad how far downward their products have fallen.
Save yourself some money and aggravation and look elsewhere for a status portable computer.
Outlandish machine after working around the graphics issue!
Ok, first let me start by saying that in the previous I would never have considered purchasing a Gateway. I had always thought of them as the Packard Bell of today (although Packard Bell still operates very successfully in Europe). Anyway, I found a refurb for this laptop on the for peanuts on Ebay and decided to take a chance. I was VERY impressed with it's performance and battery spirit and I added a SSD hard drive for the OS to further boost performance. The laptop also competent for the free Windows 7 upgrade from Gateway and runs wonderfully on this machine.
It wasn't without a bit of labour however, as it came with some odd graphics problems. It would seem to randomly freeze and create odd distortions on the sort out at times, although it would run high-end games such as Crysis just fine. The secure ups would tend to happen when it was doing something simple such as watching a clip on Youtube or typing up a substantiate. This began to happen LOTS during the course of a day and I was starting to get really mess up about it. After weeks of searching and driver updates I finally found a post on [...] about this egress, and as it turns out the problem is being caused by an issue in the video card when it tries to go into a low-power phase when you aren't taxing it with a game or some other high-end function. This is when the freezes would turn up dawn on. The fix is to visit [...] and download the desktop version of the drive in summation to a modified .inf file. After installing these you go into the nVidia Control Panel, then into the 3D Settings and under the Extensive setting change "Power management mode" to "prefer top performance". Additionally, I went back into the Program Settings tab and misused the same setting for each program listed, as I did occaisionally still have a problem with it feezing up once in a while. Since that stretch I have not experienced a single freeze or crash and I still can get a bit over 3 hours of battery sentience out of it.
Of course right after I get this fixed Gateway releases the new version of this laptop with the 260 graphics window-card, but as this laptop runs Crysis just fine I think I will be ok!
If Amazon bleeps the links above please just search Google for "9800M GTS gpu unevenness in gateway p-7805u fx laptop" and it should be the top result.
well usefulness the money I paid
I bought this laptop a year ago. I bought it for approach, because I am in web design and need a powerful system, within my budget. Let me tell you this machine does not defeat. Runs 3d studio max 2009 flawlessly. little lag time on rephrase, but any machine under 8 gig is going to give you that hiccup. Render is within a reasonable time, less than a partially an hour for final movie. Supports mud box, tentacles, and Adobe CS4 big fish collection. Photo shop, flash, illustrator, dream weaver, fireworks. Oh yeah. I even had Maya 2009 on here for a unimaginative while. No problems there either I might add.
Aside from being an excellent machine to run high end power sucking software on, it's also terrifying for gaming! Call of Duty Modern Warfare, Arkham Asylum, Bio breakdown 2, World of War craft, The re release updated version of Potency Unleashed. Everything I have installed and played, plays with no lag time, flawless convert, and the screen is worth it. 17" of heaven. I never have trouble with the system, though I can't speak for being of interest to servers such as WOW which do lag from time to time.
I have to admit, when I bought it I was worried. Gateway hadn't been doing well at the epoch, and I really wanted an alien ware. The alien ware with these specs I might add was a posh more. I bought this as consolation, and can tell you that my next laptop, when it is time to upgrade, will be a gateway FX. I won, on quotation, and the system all around. This review is being written on it I might add! ^_^
