Check out Gateway's new 17" monster! What a deal with a NVIDIA 9800 GTS and 17" WUXGA LCD!!

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage....=1211587727985

ProcessorIntel� Core(TM)2 DuoProcessor Speed2.26GHzDisplay TypeWUXGA TFT widescreen (1920 x 1200)Screen Size17"System Bus1066MHzCache Memory3MB on die level 2System Memory (RAM)4GBType of Memory (RAM)PC-6400 DDR3Hard Drive TypeSerial ATA (7200 rpm)Hard Drive Size200GBOptical DriveDouble-layer DVD±RW/CD-RWOptical Drive Speeds2.4x DVD+R DL; 2x DVD-R DL; 8x8x8 DVD+RW; 8x6x8 DVD-RW; 5x DVD-RAM; 24x16x24 CD-RWDirect-Disc LabelingYesDigital Media Reader or SlotsYes, digital media card readerGraphicsNVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTSVideo Memory512MB GDDR3

Wow! I need to get a job after this semeter so I can buy some new toys...

awesome deal. although its just a re-badging of the 8800 gts. wish they'd offer the 9800 gt at least. which according to nvidia's new naming scheme is quite better then the 9800 gts.

I'd love for this to go on sale.

Does that mean they might lower the price of 6860-FX?

I picked up mine yesterday at Best Buy. $1449. Awesome....

what a deal!

review and pics please. . issues which concern me are build quality, noise of fans running idle and full throttle and quality of screen compared to the best ones, sony, toshiba etc. oh and congrats

I'll try to get pictures this weekend. I looked at your sig and noticed you have almost the same rig I replaced. (XPS Gen2).

I've only had it a couple days but the build quality seems VERY good. The keyboard is better than my XPS, though (because its a full size with num pad) it's a little more to the left which has caused me some typo issues. Screen is beautiful, no dead pixels. There is some light leakage on the bottom, but that doesn't bother me. I played COD4 last night with everything maxed and it was smooth as silk. The fans ran, but were very quiet (I was worried about that too). They do come on and off more abruptly than the XPS did (the XPS ramp up more). So far I really like it and I can't believe it cost under $1500. My XPS - 3 yrs ago was $2700. I haven't run any benchmarks or anything, I'm a software developer and have been busy installing software on it. My Vista Windows experience score (if that means anything) is 5.2 (mainly because of the processor).

http://www.anandtech.com/mobile/showdoc.aspx?i=3373

Benchmarks not too impressive over the older models, battery life is greatly improved however. They did say they had problems with stability.

FYI, for those thinking this is a great deal, you'll flip when you see this one:
http://forums.slickdeals.net/showthr...61993&t=896021
(a day late though)

just picked mine up last night, i must say it is the NICEST computer I have ever used

thanks geekelvis. repped. i guess the review is useful to me cause u had the xps2 as well so u can compare. was about to get it at the same price too 3.5 yrs ago (2700-2800) but there were coupons floating around these forums at that time.

How much difference would the 9800m GTX and the 9800m GTS be?
Is it possible if I can switch the GPU to the 9800m GTX?

9800 gtx claims better memory clock speed and memory bandwidth - not much, but better. I doubt that gateway allows the swapping of gpus by end users. seeing their trend up until now.

cheers ...

Just wanted to ditto this: screen is awesome (not a word I often use) as good as any I've seen, no bad pixels on mine either, fans are really a non-issue when not playing games or doing anything intensive and what I hear is more the air moving through the grills than the fans themselves when they are on. As for build quality it's no MacBook Pro but everything seems solid and put together right except for the box it came in which literally fell apart in my hands as I eased the computer out: be careful out there, if I hadn't had my hand on it my new lappie would have been headed straight to the floor!

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