Gateway MX3410
So, just played around with a Gateway MX3410 (don't bother looking it up on thier site, not a word about it for some reason). It's available at Futureshop in Canada with the following specs; Turion 64 X2 TL-50 Dual Core 1.6GHZ 512 DDR 80GB 4200 DVD +/-RW Dual Layer Nvidia Go 6100 (128 shared) 14.1 Ultrabright XGA 6-cell Li-Ion $849 CDN Found the new Turion to be VERY fast. Benchmarks apparently exist that rank it below the Intel variant but, from a basic computer user viewpoint, I couldn't tell. Screen is lovely. For a $850 laptop, it's quite bright, has great uniformity and good colour quality. Looks very, very similar to the Macbook 13 inch screens. The Nvidia 6100...
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