Wave Goodbye
Yes! I finally scored an invite to that awesome new social-collaborative-chat-messaging tool! I’m gonna be surfing a wave of productivity now, man!
And thanks to my compact, portable Gateway 11.6” Netbook, I’m going to be doing it from my very favorite cupcake bakery/burlesque house. How many hip units is that worth? A million? A billion? A googol? I just wish I’d had the foresight to grow a humorous mustache.
OK, let’s fire it up…I’m in! Prepare for waving! Man, this is gonna be so much cooler than watching a streaming Netflix movie, or listening to the music I loaded onto the 250GB hard drive. And I bet it’ll be way more productive than using the netbook’s pre-loaded Microsoft Works and Microsoft Office apps. With this Netbook’s long 6-cell battery life, this wave’s gonna go on for hours!
Alright, so, wow, that’s a lot of stuff on the screen. Not very well-suited to this 11.6” LED display, but I won’t complain. I am obviously the unworthy one. So let’s see, it’s like, uh, email? I guess? That’s neat, everybody likes email. And then what’s this over here, some kind of chat thing? Hey, there’s one of the dev guys! I gotta compliment him on this awesome app! Here, let me type:
Hey, Gavin! This Wave thing really suc
Whoa, why’s he getting all hostile? I was just going to tell him that this Wave thing succeeds in meeting my expectations. How did he even know I was going to say anything? It’s almost like he could see me typing. Weird. Well, I can’t let that slow me down! I’ve got productivity to optimize!
Anyway, so what else can I do here? I’ll try setting up a document to collaborate on…but I don’t see any buttons for that. Huh. Maybe share some pictures from my trip to the Rick Astley Museum? I wonder how. Or, I know, I’ll tell people about this awesome cupcake I’m eating right now, like I do on Facebook and Twitter all the time. That’s gotta be pretty simple, right? So you do that by, uh, lemme see, well, I guess I don’t understand how that works either. Maybe if I just tap the computer screen, or bang on the keyboard, or yell into one of the three USB ports…no, nothing. Huh.
I wonder what’s on TV.
Authorized for SquareTrade Extended Warranty
Warranty: 90 Day Gateway
Features:
- Processor: AMD Athlon™ 64 L110 Single-Core Processor (1.2GHz, 800MHz FSB, 512KB L2 Cache)
- Operating System: Genuine Windows Vista® Home Basic (32-bit) with SP1
- Display: 11.6” HD WXGA Ultrabright™ LED-backlit Display (1366×768 resolution, 16:9 aspect ratio)
- Video: ATI Radeon® X1270 graphics with 256MB HyperMemory
- Memory: 2048MB DDR2 533MHz SDRAM Single Channel Memory
- Hard Drive: 250GB SATA hard drive
- Wireless Network: 802.11b/g Wi-Fi
- Adapter: AC Adapter
- Application Software: Microsoft® Works, Microsoft® Money Essentials, Microsoft® Office Home and Student 2007 (60-day complimentary trial period)
- Battery: 6-Cell Lithium Ion
- Chassis: Chassis with ATI Radeon® X1270 Graphics and AMD RS690E Chipset8
- External Ports: (3) USB 2.0, VGA Connector
- Keyboard and Mouse: Keyboard with Multi-Gesture Touchpad
- Media Card Reader: Multi-in-1 Digital Media Card Reader (Memory Stick®, Memory Stick Pro™, MultiMediaCard, Secure Digital™, xD-Picture Card™)
- Network: 10/100 Ethernet LAN (RJ-45 port)
- Security Software: Norton Internet Security™ 2009 (60-day trial) & Gateway Recovery Management
- Sound: High-Definition Audio Support, Built-In speakers, Microphone, Headphone (with Dolby® Headphone Technology)/Speaker/Line-Out Jack
- Web Camera: 0.3 Megapixel Integrated Webcam
- Weight: (Box) : 3.93 lbs. (1.78 kg.)
- Weight (Unit): 3.04 lbs (1.38 kg)
- Dimensions (Box): 3.1” (H) x 14.8” (W) x 10.1” (D)
- Dimensions (System): 1.03” (H) x 11.26” (W) x 7.99” (D)
Additonal Photos:
In the box:
- Gateway LT3103 1.2GHz 1.2Ghz/2GB/250GB/WC/VHB/6C/11.6” Netbook
- Power A/C Cord
- 6-Cell Lithium Ion Battery
Inset photo credit: thelastminute
