Gateway MX6448 AMD Turion 64 X2 1gb ATI 1150 128mb (shows 256mb/hypermemory?) 15.4 WXGA LCD 120gb MINI Review
Did anyone jump on this BB lappie? I picked one up yesterday and I'm quite impressed. Great power and decent graphics for under $700.00. (retail $849.99, currently sold out) This machine can run most non 3d games pretty well! The battery life is so so with the 6 cell battery (est 2hrs) but the LCD, speakers, design and price makes up for it.
Besides you can always buy an 8 or 12 cell battery. I also noticed this lappy runs pretty cool and is pretty darn sturdy for the money.
Pros:
Fast duo core x2 turion
Super nice 15.4 LCD- as nice as my Wife's fairly recent Sony Vaio
Great sounding speakers
great design/light weight
Bluetooth (i think it has it according to the manual)
Ati 1150 is actually pretty decent (can run CS source, Nba live 07, nfl 07 with decent settings-- med to high. BF2 in low and slow15-20fps lol)
xp media center
1gb ram
Price/value
Cons
120GB 4200 rpm
6 cell battery (around 2.5 hrs under normal usage)
If anyone is intersted in purchasing a great little amd x2 and plan on using it for light gaming I highly recommend this model. I truely believe Gateway laptops are well built and offer the best bang for the buck in terms of performance/pricing.
Yeah.... the HDD is too slow. 5400 rpm should be the standard these days.
Even for non gamer like myself.....
Anyone know roughly how well the integrated graphics performs vs a dedicated card like the m9700 or x3/700?
So Far seems to run pretty good with about 2 hour battery. I don't like to dim the LCD so you might be able to stretch it a little more. Seem pretty light for it's size as well.
Have a good day!
The sound isnt bad but I recently found a game where the integrated sound wasnt matching up with the action. So if you game and like the sound get a pcmcia.
I had a huge gaming notebook had a board burn up in it.. got it fixed and got rid of it. I wanted a notebook to use while travel that would run some games that I like but the bare minimum worked for me.
This notebook answers the call. I got about 2 hours with the included battery while playing a DVD. I also started a thread with my model and games Ive ran on it.
For $849 you cant go wrong, you can always swap harddrive in future if you want.
The battery is taking a poo on my 7422gx. I only get about 50 min on it now. On Ebay I can find a 8 or 12 cell battery to get 4-6 hrs of battery life for less than $50??? Do you have any links, because I'm not really sure what to look for?
There's teh link. It has a 4200 hardrive though it is 160gb
from BB at least it will have the lastest OS, something too consider
any ideas or is this 'normal'?
about the same thing i think. tl52 proc, 2 gigs o ram, 160 gig drive, crappy onboard video
got this just to hold me over til i can decide upon/afford another good comp
do you like that screen bryan? i hate it has the narrowest good viewing angle i have ever seen, and the resolution sucks
have to look at it dead on straight to see it properly and i dont dig that at all
yeah bf2 plays like crap on this
and cant get drivers or anything from anywhere except gateway official support?
and when might they update the drivers? try never
so long as this thing holds together for a few months i will be ok though
Does your MX6448 heat up fast? I mean, mines throws out some hot air through the exhaust port (left-back side of lappy) while doing simple tasks like word processing or even being idle.
Does your MX6448 do the same?
I've used PC Wizard 2006 to get temp readings from CPU and HDD and their readings are:
CPU - 58 ºC and HDD - 51 ºC
136 ºF 127 ºF
I believe 136 ºF is quite hot for a Lappy, not even my desktop reaches that temp (2.8ghz vs 1.6ghz with step speed which lowers freq).
I think my TI-86 can run UT in low-med settings(I dont think it requires too much hardware)
Oh and one more thing; I didnt know that the ATI 1150 was integrated, I though all ati and nvidia were dedicated memory and so.