Gateway M305S Notebook (2.4 GHz Celeron, 256 MB RAM, 30 GB Hard Drive, DVD/CD-RW)

Rating:
Summary: Very nice Laptop!
Review: This Gateway m305CRV laptop is very nice. Not a be all end all desktop replacement of course. But a full featured laptop that does anything you ask it to. The Intel Extreme 2 Graphics are pretty good, and you can have up to 64 mb of AGP accelerated memory by setting it through the bios which is nice. The hard drive is sound. And the Intel Pentium 4 Mobile Celeron is definitely not your run of the mill celeron processor. It features the intel mobile Pentium 4 core, and unlike other celerons it features 256Kb of L2 cache rather than the normal 128Kb found in budget cpu's making this celeron faster than normal celerons. Also the system features DDR Ram which is a Huge plus for performance.

Basically it comes down to this. This laptop should perform anything you want it to do including light gaming and cpu intensive tasks. I personally watch dvd's while Im downloading music or surfing the internet on a very regular basis. I make slide shows, AVI movies and tons of other stuff. This laptop is my main computer now, I liked it enough to actually sell my less capable desktop.
Also my laptops specs are slightly different although it is the same model.
The only annoying thing about the laptop is a trade off for a nice feature as well. The fan is loud, and can be annoying while your not used to it, HOWEVER, because the fan runs alot the laptop very rarely gets warm, and virtually never gets Hot. This is the first laptop I can comfortably use on my lap, which is great and makes me not care about the fan one bit.