Gateway GT5662 Desktop PC Review

Product Description
The Gateway Desktop PC comes with 3.6 GHz processor.


Summary
Think that I have received my money on the desktop. He gave me no problems in the few days that I had it, the setup was perfect (Vista is not a boogeyman, just a slow and bejeweled windows XP), the speed and capacity of the graphics card is impressive (DVI-D cable included with a VGA cable); pleasing to the eye, well documented, colorcoded cables for some bloatware easily removable, but I try software Norton Internet Security, which has received good reviews ; drive is a bit noisy, good mouse and keyboard.

I think this is a keeper. J'attendais from a desktop computer with the Phenom quad-core chip and graphics card. It does not matter for the players, but for the rest of us, it will certainly do. I am amazed at the way it handles the display of Google Earth town 3D scenes (turning so fast!). Twenty years ago, that would have required a Cray (which is very expensive principal researcher, for you young computer enthusiasts).

It comes with Vista, even on a hard restore! You do not have to use your own. He seems to have about 11 MB set aside for a restoration partition so that you actually closer to 450 GB at your disposal. I went to the Canon Web site to find a driver for my Vista MP450 printer - no problem there. Thanks to it, my monitor using HP 2207 perfectly DVI-D.

You know, if you know Windows XP, you have no problem with Vista. I found it very easy to navigate, not instability - just a lot of pop-ups to verify that you want a particular program to run. The instability comes from Windows Explorer browser - it down regularly. Use it just long enough to download Firefox, stable, fast, versatile browser know that people love. So what? On XP on my laptop, I had programs like WinPatrol wondering the same thing, for my protection. Ethernet was just a plug, no configuration problems. On Comcast, I do not get that 16 Mbps on downloads. But it does not have Gigabit Ethernet (1000Mbps), just 10/100 - good enough for me.

Some programs take advantage of all four cores, others just one. Anyway, you always elbowroom. I intend to use this for video editing HD (when I get HD cam, of course) and I think this baby can handle it.

I had thought about buying a Mac, but Mac desktop costs about $ 2500 and quad or eight. Improving the quality of the hardware and operating system, but I need to spend more than to do what I do: surf, a little game, photo editing, the land of Google, the collection of music, and massively multi-tasking at the same time (40 tabs open browser with five or ten other programs running).

This is my first ever Gateway. I might be back one day. I think Gateway was recently purchased by eMachines to Korea, to give them the name of instant recognition in the United States. Both Gateway and AMD give you one or two special programs to make life a little easier: online storage (15 GB) and a media programme.

This is a powerful middle of the road bureau. Not for fans of games - Company of Heroes is probably not shock you with its frame rates. But it might just you through the next five or more years of technical progress, without letting you in the lurch - it's something.

Resistance
Quad core, 3 GB of memory, ATI graphics card with discrete DVI-D, fast, multi-tasking on steroids

Weakness
HD a little noisy, and not as many USB ports as some people like (only 6)