Gateway P-171XL FX Edition Laptop

Gateway P-171XL FX Edition notebook
SPECS 2.8GHz Core 2 Extreme X7900; 3GB DDR2; two 200gb hard drives; HD DVD player/ DVD*RW: 17-inch TFT: Windows Vista Home Premium

The leader of Gateway's fresh FX family of premium laptops (which begin at $1349), Gateway P-171XL notebook delivers where it counts most to advanced product customers.Regarding style, Gateway P-171XL is not as aggressively intrusive as some of it is gaming central rivals.The obviously layer blackcase and copper trim present that this isn't common laptop, but without the flashy succeed of many gaming equipments.The masterpair of the system is it is seventeen inch widescreen screen, which has a full 1080p HD resolution of 1920x1200. Correlating that HD display are an HD DVD-drive, add an HDMI port for showing PC content on an external screen or TV. One caution our test model failed to contain an applet that can playback HD-DVD discs. Also pay attention to Gateway's drive is an HD DVD player but hums only CDs and DVDs.Supplied by a 2.8GHz Core2 Extreme X7900 CPU.512MB nVidia GeForce 8800M GT graphicscard and a 3GB of 667MHz RAM , Gateway P-171XL notebook deliver to be the quickness single_gpu laptop we have examined to date; it even outdo Dell's SLI platform XPS M1730 on some creativeness and multimedia benchs, containing Futuremark's PCMark05 7348 score, Cinebench bench 9.5 (862)score and our Windows Media Encoder test perform 5 minutes39 secs.As for gaming Gateway P-171XL controlled an grand 8014 score on Futuremark's 3DMark06 185fps on F.E A.R. at 1024x768 resolution and a fluent playable 47fps on COH games at 1920x1200 res.See that devices with dual GPUs processor will shot these 3D scores,meanwhile they also price $1000 more. As with other seventeen inch laptops, batterylife was a weak one hour 25 mins.