If you are looking for a thin-and-light laptop then check out the new Gateway EC1805u that was revealed a few days ago. The Gateway EC1805u is an 11.6 inch mini laptop with Intel’s CULV processor, picture above. Guess what? The Gateway EC1805u is also a rebranded laptop from the Acer Aspire 1410 (Gateway’s parent company). The Gateway EC1805u boasts of some particular features such as an 11.6 inch display, a 1.4GHz Intel Core2 Solo SU3500 processor, 2GB DDR2 RAM, a 250GB HDD, HDMI output and Windows Vista Home Premium. It weighs in a little heavy at 3.08 pounds and measures 8.03 x 11.22 x 1.18 inches. Now Amazon.com has it on sale for $449.99, it looks like a pretty nice deal, especially considering the 7+ hours of battery life!
As a quick review, here are the specifications:
The Gateway LT2030u mini laptop is an 10.1-inch Red netbook which features 10.1-Inch SD WSVGA High Brightness LED-backlit Display, powered by 1.6GHz Intel N270 Atom Processor, 1GB DDR2 of RAM and 250GB hard drive. Other features include Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950, three USB ports, 5-in-1 memory card reader, 802.11b/g WiFi, a 6-cell battery, which provides up to 7 hours of continuous use. This mini laptop has offers platform of Windows 7 Starter and Amazon.com has it on sale for $350.
Gateway has just launched its new mini laptop, the EC14 netbook. This laptop is basically a 1810TZ shuved in a gateway shell and based around energy efficient Intel CULV platform. The CULV laptop is equipped with a 11.6-inch widescreen display with a resolution of 1366×768 pixels, a 1.3GHz Pentium Dual Core SU1400 CPU, 320GB hard drive, a 4GB RAM (up to 8GB), and an Intel GMA 4500MHD GPU. As for the graphics performance, the 4500MHD is actually very competent at playing back HD video even with the SU1400 (running Vista Home Premium), so a