Bought this as a graduation present, so I went through it to test gateway m-6888u out and remove all the trialware (which thankfully there isn't that much of)...and came away very impressed.
The main selling point for me was the ati HD 2600 video card which has surpassed my expectations so far! I installed the newest Prince of Persia which ran very good at max details and default resolution (1200 x 800), and the new Wolverine game also ran great and was fun with the xbox 360 controller. Then the real test came : Fallout 3...it was running great at medium details so I decided to see what happened at the highest detail settings. to my surprise it only took a little tweaking of the view distance and Aniso filtering (dropped it to 4x) and AA (off or 2x) to get it to run smoothly even in the outdoor areas.
With the core 2 duo processor at 2ghz and 4gb of ram it obviously is able to handle most everyday tasks (word, powerpoint, etc..) with ease. The battery life seems decent so far...a few hours per charge, except for gaming (when obviously the hardware is running at max performance) which will drain the batt much quicker.
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