Choosing Gateway Convertible Tablet PC
By Imanuel Henry
Gateway, as a brand which is now wholly owned subsidiary of Acer, has offered a high-quality product with great service to its worldwide customer. Gateway has been established for a long time, and the Gateway Convertible Tablet PC was welcomed in the market.
Tablet PCs are becoming well known and popular in these days in workplace or college. There are several different models of Gateway Convertible Tablet PC which offered in low prices. Their Tablet PC is offered around $1,000 while others start from $1,500. And now, we want to take a look some models of Gateway Convertible Tablet PC for reviews.
The C-142XL comes as Gateway's high-end Tablet PC with Intel Core 2 Duo processor 2.4GHz, 250GB hard drive, 3GB of DDR2 RAM, 8 x dual-layer DVD burners, ATI Mobility Radeon X2300HD graphics card, Bluetooth, Ethernet, Fingerprint for security, and with gorgeous 14? glossy screen with 1280×768 resolution. This screen is can be easily flipped from standard to tablet in seconds.
This Tablet PC starts over 6 pounds, not a lightest notebook however. It becomes an opposite when the tablets are meant light and thin. But you will get a good battery life time which last for around 4 until 5 hours.
As summary, the pros from this Gateway Convertible Tablet PC are great battery life time, have fingerprint reader, and great performance . While the cons are no support for 802.11n wireless networking, no auto-rotation for display, and said to be heavy for a tablet PC kind.
E-155C
This E-155C is Gateway's smallest Tablet to date, but it is not lightweight. Weighs 4.5 pounds can be a disappoint feature for Tablet user that usually take under 4pounds.
Comes with Core 2 Duo 1.06GHz ULV processor, 1GB RAM, Intel GMA 950 as a graphic card, 12.1” screen size, Ethernet, WI-Fi, installed Vista Ultimate and complete array of ports. The number of RAM is good enough, but it is better if you expand it to 2GB RAM. This tablet is completed with pen input technology with touchscreen so you can browse quickly using your fingers.
And as conclusion, the E-155C is nice for its appearance and having good features for its price. As a pros from this Gateway Tablet PC are having responsive keyboard and touchpad, nice design, completed with Wacom digitizer and touchscreen, soft palm rest, quite and cool when running it, and easy to rotate to other direction.
In other side, this Gateway Convertible Tablet PC has cons such as the screen is grainy, cannot orientate itself when rotated by user, and can be said to be wobbles because hinge is not secure enough, and it is heavy for Tablet PC type.
S-7200c
Gateway has released this type for fit to mobile professionals and for them who more life on the road than home. You can use it as a desktop replacement without greater weight but in convenience with touchscreen.
This tablet PC comes with Intel Pentium M processor 1,73GHz, 512MB DDR2 RAM, 40 GB hard drive, Wi-Fi, Modem, Ethernet, complete array of ports, 12-cell of batteries and 14.1” screen size. The weight can be varied from 6.15lbs until 7.13 lbs along with the type of battery used.
This Gateway Convertible Tablet PC can make you easily connected in anywhere you happen to be . Supported with the long life time from the battery, you will not need to find a power source for about 7 hours of travelling.
The only con from this Gateway Laptop comes from its hard drive. The 40GB hard drive will not quite enough to store your program and data. You would spend more to expand the hard drive or buying external hard drive.
From three types Gateway Convertible Tablet PC above, what you will choose is depend on your need. If you need to run many design application or you are gamer, great processor is what your need . Therefore the C-142XL is a great choice for you.
And for you business traveler, the S-7200C is designed to accompany your mobile activity. And the third type, E-155C is great for your home laptop.
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