Customer Reviews

Gateway T-1424u Laptop Computer

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The laptop is great. It's nice visually and has decent performance, especially after you uninstall the norton 360 that comes preinstalled on it, it gets faster. It's everything you can hope for in a work laptop: it's light, has a nice finish, nice HDMI display, dvd-rw, a powerful athlon processor, 3gb of ram that allows you to run almost anything, ATI graphics that allow you to run some games and most imaging software (got adobe CS3 on it and it runs nicely).

However, Gateway messed up in a few areas.

The battery, though 6-celled and 4400mah and yadda yadda yadda, barely gives you 2 and a half hours of life working like you normally would (no dvd) on a powersaving scheme. I've tried searching for a larger battery only to find there's no alternative, so get ready to be charging this laptop frequently.

The thing that bothers me most is that the touchpad mouse sucks, big time. I've had many laptops in the past and even my 1995 inspiron's touchpad was better than this. It's not very sensitive, needs hard tapping to get the mouse moving/clicking and the surface isn't very smooth to scroll.

Oh and the speakers suck. I don't use them much but i've had a few situations where i really needed the speakers to be loud and they're just not.

Other than that, the computer's a great value for what you get and will serve you well if you don't mind the above points.

Affordable, Very smooth performance and just overall great quality. I picked this up as a travelk notebook now it's one of my prime notebooks, it just keeps suprizing me, no problems just great performance and layout, great job Gateway.

The Gateway T-1424U is meant to be an affordable system with decent performance and high portability. Its specifications include 3GB of RAM, 320GB disk space, and a dual Althon 64-bit processor. The garnet-red color is a nice touch.

However, there are signs that Gateway has been cutting corners. The keyboard feels flimsy. No "physical" recovery media disks are provided with the system. On my notebook, the SD card reader "sticks" which must have been overlooked by their quality-control department.

According to Gateway, this system is NOT meant to run a 64-bit OS (due to serious incompatibilities) and comes with only 32-bit Home Premium. Also, the RS690 chipset, being only DirectX 9.0 compatible (not 10.0), will NOT be able to effectively run Windows 7. Furthermore, this system is ineligible for the free Windows 7 upgrade. If you are purchasing with the intention of upgrading to Windows 7 or using 64-bit Vista, this system isn't for you.

Lastly, I found Gateway's customer service & technical support to be extremely unhelpful in answering what should be simple questions regarding the system specifications. I hope this is not indicative of how they will handle warranty requests.

This machine was good till the DVD failed. I wanted to upgrade to Win 7 64 and DVD drive stopped working. Their chat support told I could not upgrade to Win 7 64, I did not want to argue with them so we moved on to see why my DVD would not read my media. They had me try a number of things before they recommended I restore my system and they suggested I spoke to their pay per call support. My machine is in warranty for another 2 months but decieded not to waste my time with them and bought one from e-bay for $39.00. I was able to upgrade to Win7 64 but those that are familiar with the sound issue on this upgrade know that a bios upgrade is necessary and of course there is no support for that. I prefer the performance of win 7 64 over the sleep mode sound failure. So though the performance of the system is fine now and the sound fails after going to sleep mode (something I knew would happen), there is no way I would recommend this system to anyone.

I love my laptop its fantastic!
I was able to run WOW and sims on back when I played and had no difficulties whatsoever.
Webcam could be better, the pictures not that great so I rarely use it.
Its size is very light and portable, it gets a lil annoying at times cause when i sit criss-cross its not wide enough to rest on both my legs, so I have to balance it on just on leg.
Battery life was really good for the first 3 months, and now its in the toilet and thats why i gave it 4 stars. Its a good thing that i dont travel much, and all i use my laptop for is word assignments and social networking sites so im not real dependent on preformance.
The screen/display is amazing nice and bright and it has ton of customizeable options.
Sound is good, I watch alot of dvds, hulu and youtube videos on this laptop and it sounds crisp and clear every time.
And thats about it, i love my laptop and im happy that i made this purchase, would i do it again? I think I would only if they included some picture/video editing programs/made the webcam better.