Gateway Laptop Intel Core i5 1st Gen 430M (2.26GHz) 4GB Memory 320GB HDD Intel HD Graphics 15.6" Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit NV5929u

Pros: Fast, good looks, good features

Cons: Run and I.T. company, bought 4 for a client. The Mouse left/right click "bar" SUCKS! It is awkward, skinny, in a bad position, and hard to push, especially with a relaxed flat-lying thumb and is quite a reach compared to just about every other laptop I've ever used. The further to the edges you push the easier it will go down, but the further of a reach it is. Also, the NUMPAD, which would normally be a big plus for a laptop is not a standard design. the + key is at the top and the enter key is at the bottom (as opposed to having these to keys along the right-hand side). I'm just wondering why whoever designed this laptop decided to re-invent the wheel with these two things??? DUMB DUMB DUMB.

Overall Review: overall OK laptop, if it had the standard "fat" left and right click buttons right at the bottom of the touchpad (or were at least no so darn stiff) AND had a standard numpad (like HP, Toshiba and Acer models), then I would have given if 5 stars.

Pros: Fast, i5, 4gb ddr3 ram. HD output with HDMI in $600. I saw a lot of i3 notebooks around $550, why not just buy an i5 in $600. I think it is worth. nice outlook design; included webcam; bluetooth.

Cons: 1st -----> bad speakers i think. some noise sound like "sasa" come out from speakers but u have put your ears close to speaker or u will hear when in silent room. 2nd ------> squealing when running some applications like fxxfox, it is very annoying, except u you paste two scotch tapes cover the speakers to reduce the noise. 3rd ----> Too heat for a new notebook, it warms my legs. 4th ----> battery, can't stay for more than 3 hrs even u turns it on powersave mode.

Overall Review: Most ppl say the touch pad click button is bad, but i am ok because i am using wireless mouse. the squealing from speaker is the most bad thing for the notebook, and it seems can not be fix. I did request a REPLACEMENT from Newegg and try to see if i can get the good one.

Pros: The Processor is FAST Nice Ram, upgradeable to 8gb Cool, always runs cool, even on passive cooling 128 mb graphics is enough to play some pretty good games at decent speeds The numpad is great The keyboard is pretty good once you get used to it, i don't normally like flat keys, but this keyboard has convinced me otherwhise HDMI out to 1080p monitor makes for great data center. Easy access to HDD and RAM AMAZING battery life

Cons: Just a few very minor ones. one USB port doesn't seem to receive as much power as the others, and that's normally not a problem. Debian doesn't support powersaving features with the default drivers, leads to some custom scripting, and the multi-touch gestures annoyed me, but i turned them off. Didn't support Grub when Debian 5 was out, but Debian 6's GRUB fixed the problems.

Overall Review: First, I changed the 320 Gb hard drive out for a 500 Gb one for space. Windows 7 was (and still is) lightning fast, although it has slowed down due to windows' ntfs disk formatting. Turning off the wifi adapter and using the computer only for typing up a document or browsing the web, i can get up to 5.5 hours of battery life by adjusting the power saver settings. I have only used up to 25% of the processor, and I do intense Matlab simulations. I dualboot with Debian, and both OSes run super fast and are great. This laptop has served me for school, work, and play. It makes a great HD entertainment center and a great gaming computer up to a point and is great for everyday things like browsing and typing up documents. It's a great laptop, it's unfortunate that Newegg doesn't stock these models anymore, but they should. Great buy, i am COMPLETELY SATISFIED with my purchase.

Pros: Price Great components (CPU, hardrive, RAM, etc) Nice look

Cons: The keyboard is very uncomfortable The touchpad and its keys are not comfortable The biggest problem: it makes a static noise that comes from the speakers. This noise is very annoying and it sounds as if there was a short circuit inside the computer. This is a known issue with this computer and it should be fixed.

Pros: Laptop has all the features as advertised. As expected, Win7 64bit, an i5 CPU, and 4GB of memory is nice and snappy. The on board graphics are great for any everyday tasks, even watching TV online. It also played Civilization 5 OK. Not as well as my custom built gaming machine, but that is to be expected. It was still smooth enough to be enjoyable, which is more than I expected from a laptop with only integrated graphics. The numpad is rearranged a bit, and the mouse buttons are replaced with a long, narrow bar. Some reviewers slammed this laptop for it, but I have to say that they must be rather hard to please if these two things were any issue at all. The scroll pad is perfectly smooth, the bar works just fine, and is very easily "adjusted to" (took no adjustment by my wife or myself), and the numpad arrangement makes excellent use of the available real estate, allowing the rest of the keys to be that little bit larger. The keyboard is nice and snappy as well. Great b

Cons: none.

Overall Review: very minimal amount of preinstalled annoyances, which were easily uninstalled in about 5 minutes, never to be seen or heard from again.

Pros: - 4GB Core i5 laptop = fast, $600 = great value. - Nice looking design.

Cons: - Questionable trackpad buttons. No biggy, really. - Mic catches echo - Skype becomes room-sensitive. - Top cover is fingerprint magnet.

Overall Review: Replaced HDD with 60GB SSD and got a extremely fast laptop for $740. Failed to restore system image onto the new SSD for no apparent reason, so had to install Windows from scratch onto the new SSD. In general I am very skeptical of laptops. I am a software developer and I always need all the speed I can get from a computer. Power+value balance was always so much in favor of desktops, that I never used laptops for anything more than internet, email and skype. This laptop, especially with SSD instead of stock HDD, delivers speed that makes it a good development workhorse.

Pros: Great

Cons: Touch pad maybe...

Overall Review: This is a great buy for the price and it doesnt get hot.. This laptop deserves 5 stars

Pros: I bought this one when it was priced at $599 and had free shipping on it. For the price it well worth it, i5-430m ,128 dedicated graphics memory. The computer is real fast and efficient. It also got a 4.7 Windows Experience Index.

Cons: Bloatware not a lot but yet it would have been better if it was without it. You have to make your own recovery disks, which these days is the standard in the industry. The only thing i dont like is the touchpad. it got some good features to it but its not that accurate and/or smooth compared to the other laptops i owned/have.

Overall Review: good laptop at a decent price. it can also be a good for the students.