Gateway 838GM Media Center Desktop

by Gateway

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 34.6 pounds
• ASIN: B000BJRI1O
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #19,613 in Computers & Accessories (See Top 100 in Computers & Accessories)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: December 7, 2006

Product Description

Includes: premium multimedia keyboard, USB optical 2-button wheel mouse, amplified stereo speakers, Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005, Works 8.0, Money 2005, Office 2003 Trial, Nero 6 Suite, PowerDVD, Norton Internet Security 2005 (90-day trial), & more. Gateway 838GM Media Center Desktop - For a great price you get a desktop computer that offers outstanding technology and performance. The Intel Pentium 4 processor 630 is a 3.0 GHz, 64-bit processor that can handle demanding graphic, video, and gaming applications. It also features Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2004. An operating system that has a separate user interface for your television. So from the comfort of your couch, you can easily access your music, movies, images, and more! Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 900 with up to 224MB of shared video memory (memory is shared with the main system) Intel High Definition 6-Channel Audio (5.1) 200GB 7200RPM Serial ATA 8MB Cache HDD Double-Layer DVD Writer - (write speeds) up to 4x Double Layer DVD+R, 16x DVD+R, 16x DVD-R, 6x DVD-RW, 8x DVD+RW, 40x CD-R, & 24x CD-RW Double-Layer DVD Writer - (read speeds) up to 16x DVD-ROM & 40x CD-ROM CD-ROM Drive - up to 48x 8-in-1 Digital Media Manager - supports Secure Digital (SD), Smart Media, Micro Drive, Memory Stick, Memory Stick Pro, Compact Flash, Multimedia Card, & a USB 2.0 slot for a flash drive 56k v.92 Fax Modem Ports - 10/100 Ethernet, 7 USB 2.0 (2 front), 1 VGA, 3 Firewire (2 front), 1 Serial, 1 Parallel, 2 PS/2, & 5 Audio Slots - 1 PCI-E x16 (1 available), 1 PCI-E x1 (1 available), & 2 PCI (1 available) Bays - 4 3.5 (2 available) & 2 5.25 (0 available) Unit Weight - approx. 23 lbs.

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Pretty good for price., May 22, 2006

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A. Alvarado (Rialto, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Gateway 838GM Media Center Desktop (Personal Computers)

Did not have any bad problems like last person, he must have had a bad hard drive. Came with media center edition, for what your paying id say you get your moneys worth. Came with 512 MB of ram, gonna get 2 gigs in addition to what i have, add up to 4 gigs of ram.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Nothing but problems, February 24, 2006

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Nugents in VA "nugentrn" (Springfield, VA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Gateway 838GM Media Center Desktop (Personal Computers)

This computer hasn't worked right from the beginning. When it worked, it was great, and for that reason, I give it a 2. I've restored the system three times and now gateway tells me I need a new hard drive, and that I should have it in two business days. I ordered it over a week ago, and it's still not here. I called gateway to complain, and nothing but a run-around. After more than two hours of phone time, they finally confirmed that it was in stock, but couldn't commit to send it to me overnight. So it "should" show up next week.

Tech support has been very polite and friendly, but couldn't provide me with the information I needed, gave me conflicting reports and finally couldn't meet a reasonable request that they send the item via overnight delivery.

I understand that defects make it out of the factory. But Gateway failed to step up and make an unsatisfied customer happy. I won't buy gateway again.

1 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars GATEWAY, August 19, 2006

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Tom L. Fox - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Gateway 838GM Media Center Desktop (Personal Computers)

HI NOW I DONT HAVE THIS GATEWAY SYSTEM BUT I HAVE HAD THE GATEWAY 566GE I LOVE IT SEE I KNOW A LOT ABOUT COMPUTERS I FIX AND BUIT THEM SO I KNOW THAT YOU DON'T WANT TO KEEP FORMATING THE HARD DRIVE THE HARD DRIVE IT SELF IS A VER VER VER POWERFUL AND FUGERL THING SEE IF YOU JUST KEEP FORMATING THE HARD DRIVE IT WELL DELETE OR CLEAR IT SELF IN PEOPLE WORDS IT WILL JUST DIE ON YOU ONE TIME IS FIND BUT NOW ALL THE TIME TURST ME I KNOW ALL TO WELL SO KEEP THAT IN MIND AND ABOUT GATEWAY I LOVE MY DID I VER HAVE TO CALL CUSTOMER SEVER IM NOT GOING TO LIE TO YOU YES I DID AND THEY WELL SO NICE TO NOW I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU GUYS ARE DOING TO OR WITH YOUR NEW GATEWAY COMPUTERS BUT REMBER THIS IT IS A COMPUTER AND YOU DON'T WANT TO DO THINGS TO IT THEN IT WILL MISS UP ON YOU BUT WITH GATWAY I THINK THERE THE BEST SO GET A GATEWAY AND SEE WHAT IT CAN DO FOR YOU.