That's the situation with my friends laptop...he can read fine he just can't write so if it isn't broken it'll likely become broken again in the short term future.
I can say from personal experience with Vista- the original complaints about Vista still exist even after SP1 and all their "compatibility" updates. Officially XP won't be discontinued until 2010 when they stop releasing...
I've heard (in other threads) that Sagers aren't reliable and neither are Gateways.....so I'd go with the gateway since it seems like the lesser of the two and as ^ mentioned, the specs are ~ the same.
Pretty much every component on these computers is different: cpu (core1 duo vs. core2 duo), wireless (intel a/b/g vs. intel a/g/n), video card (intel 950 vs. something that isn't 950). So from a driver/compatibility standpoint, you...
You'd have to tell us what you are planning on using your laptop for and what the specs are of both these computers you're considering. It doesn't do us any good to simply ask "which one of these is better" because what's...
I can't imagine technology 20 years from now that will make me look back and say "wow yesterday's technology was so ghetto".
The first sign your kids could kill you is when they're able to program the tivo faster than you can...
