Gateway M-1626 Review
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Written by Chris Tom   
Friday, 30 May 2008 01:28
CNet has reviewed the Gateway M-1626 laptop. It is Turion and Radeon powered. Less of a review, and more of reading of specs, they don't bother testing video quality on DVD playback, or 3D performance. Typically for a bankrupt blog.

The Gateway M-1626 is a fixed-configuration, retail-only laptop that's currently available at Office Depot. The $850 price tag includes a 2.0GHz AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-60 processor, 4GB of RAM, and integrated ATI Radeon X1270 graphics. The laptop uses 64-bit Windows Vista, which lets it access the full allotment of memory; 32-bit operating systems typically cannot access more than 3GB. On CNET Labs' benchmarks, the Gateway more or less matched the performance of the similarly configured Toshiba Satellite A305D ($999), but it fell behind a $1,024 Dell Inspiron 1525 built on Intel's Core 2 Duo processor. The sole exception came during our Photoshop test, where the Gateway's generous RAM allotment helped it finish at the head of the pack. During our use, the Gateway M-1626 hung in there while we simultaneously surfed the Web, typed a Word document, and listened to a CD.