Pros: Nice screen, size is average for others in the same class, weight is expected to be somewhere there, great processor. decent vista performer. nice, clean, not cheap feel to it.

Cons: Like most other laptops, it comes with trial/bloatware. its fn key is easy to confuse with the ctrl key. no biggies.

Overall Review: if you want a laptop and you're under a budget, get this one. you might get a brand new laptop for about the same price but chances are they're going to be athlon or pentium, not turion which is optimized for laptops. of course, don't expect to play 3d games. upgrading to 2gigs of ram is a good idea somewhere down the road.

Pros: Excellent Startup times, fully loaded with software or not. Fast battery charging, excellent sound (great for music in the dorm). Excellent processor and GPU combo.

Cons: weighs just a bit much, low battery life. graphics card scores a 2.7 on Windows Experience Index. No analog volume control on outside.

Overall Review: It's a very nice computer for college, and not just for low end tasks either. The excellent processor coupled with the good audio and video cards make for a rich multimedia experience.

Pros: Powerful laptop that runs Windows Vista Home Premium very well. Start up is fast and not too much bloatware to clog things up though you will want to remove some programs.

Cons: Not great for high end games then again not many laptops are.

Overall Review: I would recommend a RAM upgrade to 2GBs.

Pros: Initially purchasing the product there was all of Gateway's bloat ware preinstalled with Vista. I was glad to see Gateway included a clean Vista cd. I would recommend reinstalling fresh copy of Vista and tuning Vista for performance to really take some stress off the cpu. Vista is a memory hog..

Cons: Did not include the Office 07 cd.

Overall Review: Runs Linux 64 bit very well. Great deal considering what your getting.

Pros: This notebook flies even with vista installed. Of course this is after having upgraded to 2GB of RAM. It doesn't have too much trash installed, and it has an excellent display.

Cons: It runs mediocre with only 1GB of RAM, and it has short battery life.

Overall Review: If you want to run vista on it, then upgrade to 2GB and you'll be fine.

Pros: If u want a computer for typing and watching movie or listening music, I think it is one u need, but u want this notebook for playing game...... don't think about it

Cons: heavy

Overall Review: it works well in Vista version

Pros: Fast even with Vista.. I turned Areo off, and runs even faster.. Nice wide screen, no dead pixels.. Looked around at other laptops and for what I got and for the price this cant be beat!

Cons: Battery life.. About two plus hours..

Overall Review: Upgrading ram to 2 gigs! Turn areo off!! Newegg shipping is amazing, got too my house in two days from CA to PA, but what else is new?!!