Gateway rolls out its beginning alternation of actual bargain-like notebooks. With prices capricious amid $499 and $599 you get decidedly more good specs than not appreciably cheaper Asus Eee PC 1008HA Seashell. The battle is obvious, about it is still a catechism whether Geteway NV alternation is accessible to leave with. But as far as I can tell, NV's architecture is more good than the other's in this amount group. NV alternation notebooks will be accessible some time soon. Specs follow.

Gateway NV5214u is what you get for $499. It has a 1366 x 768 resolution 16 : 9 HD Ultrabright LED display, 4GB Dual-channel DDR2 arrangement memory, HDMI and VGA ports, four USB ports, 6 corpuscle battery, 802.11a/b/g/Draft-N WiFi, 320 Gigs, congenital webcam – a lot of altered stuff. The abutting Gateway NV5807u archetypal for $599 has all the aforementioned except for processor – 2.1GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T6500 against AMD Athlon 64 X2 QL-64 Dual Core with aforementioned alarm speed, but we all now for what we pay here, right? As you ability accept already guessed, chipsets are additionally different. But that's not all. Gateway additionally equips these two models with altered GPUs. Its Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD (NV5214u) against ATI Radeon HD 3200 (NV5214u). All in all abundant of aggregate to run preinstalled Windows Vista Home Premium. Final verdict: bargain.