With the new proprietor of its products (Acer), Gateway has established its objective in that it is determined to sell at cheaper prices laptops that are from the same range offered by other big names in the field. The Gateway NV5807u, with its 15.6” widescreen and 4GB of memory, has a $600 street-price that compared to the other products of Dell, HP, and Toshiba is indeed much cheaper, but unfortunately doesn’t provide options for customization. Even so, for the components it consists of, it is still recommended to be acquired instead of other items if one considers the restricted budget.
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The design of Gateway NV5807u is made in a glossy plastic with the colors infused with artwork, a design technique known as in-mold decoration and present also in other laptop’s designs on the market, but it is somehow different in that it displays a small metallic piece on the cover, this aspect of thinness and addition of aluminum metals tending to be a trend in nowadays laptops. Its weight of 5.8 pounds makes it be 1 pound lighter than other models in its series. The display of 15.6” LED has a 1,366 x 768 resolution and this is as high as one can go. Keyboard id presented in a full size and the touchpad is big and roomy enough to adjust you with the rocking moves that trigger the right or left mouse button.
gateway-nv5807uThe ports offers room for 4 USB compared to the three ones provided by Toshiba L505D, HP dv6t, and Dell 1545, the difference being rendered by the presence of the HDMI outports. Other features – the dual layer DVD bruner, Ethernet port, multi-card reader and a 1.3 Megapixel Webcam, are the ones present in the standard system. But unlike the others, Gateway NV5807u doesn’t have an expansion for storage such as E-SATA that one finds in the dv6t and L505D models. The 320GB hard drive delivers enough storage space for an average user.
The performance of Gateway NV5807u is another trait that makes the device to shine through. The 2.1GHz, Intel Core 2 Duo T6500 processor is considered to be a budget CPU but yet is the fastest one to be found in the CPUs of L505D, MD7801, 1545, and the dv6t. If we combine this trait with the 4GB of memory, we score a video encoding on Cinebench R10 on the top scale of other scores belonging to similar models. The PCMark Vantage set to measure overall performance of a device showed a score that also tops up the ones in Gateway NV5807u’s class. The graphics are however low for this device and considering that there are no configuration options, it is one point minus in regard to the 3D graphics cards.
Running the battery test, the power lasted for 3 hours and 17 minutes and it is almost the same for 1545 and dv6t models. If you are somehow on the budget with your expenses, Gateway NV5807u proves to be you best deal for your desk installed in your home until you will afford to acquire a better device.
