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Gateway 11.6” Netbook [Refurbished] - $279.99 + $5 shipping shipping

1 * Gateway LT3103 11.6" Netbook 1.2GHz, 2GB DDR2, 250GB HDD, Vista Home Basic, 6 Cell Battery

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Battery Life?

http://www.gateway.com/systems/product/529668268.php

here's the official site

here's the product website from gateway

going by the specs and price alone, it looks like a good buy

Not Bad. How long will the battery last with it full on, I wonder?

They were selling this at best buy for a while for 100 bucks more. Looks like a sweet netbook to me. Wish I could afford it.

No disc drive?

Does this have one of those extra large batteries that gives the back of the netbook an extra "lift"?

if I play Hulu videos will this have high def quality?

duckcake wrote:No disc drive?

Netbooks dont have those. Bites, I know but that helps in battery life and compactness.

I had an Acer notebook with only a 1GB hard drive. It couldn't update itself without running out of memory. Pathetic.

That being said, this is the computer I looked at afterward. I'll be debating this one for a few hours...

If it wasn't a single core AMD...

Vista?...really???

I bought one of these a few months back. Happy with it overall, but the wifi had some troubles. Here's how I got it working in windows. No luck with wireless in Ubuntu 9.10 either, but everything else works fine.

Battery gets almost 4 hours with the screen turned down. Keyboard is full size, and is very easy to type on. Much better than the 10" netbooks I tried.

Runs Windows 7 like a champ, the 2 GB of ram is great.

wootevil wrote:Is there a manual on/off switch for the built-in webcam?

Nope

widmer69 wrote:Could this be turned into a "Hackintosh"?

Haven't had any luck with it yet.

Run away, run away. this is not the adam processor.

Head-to-head comparison with the comparable Acer Netbook:

http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/08/03/netbook-fight-gateway-lt3103-versus-acer-aspire-one-751h/

Is there a manual on/off switch for the built-in webcam?

seanthedvdguy wrote:Does this have one of those extra large batteries that gives the back of the netbook an extra "lift"?

its a six cell, expect between 4-6 hours of battery life.. good buy

and yes the battery will give the little lift, sticks out a bit

duckcake wrote:No disc drive?

Nope, you have to use the USB port with a flash drive on netbooks to transfer programs/files. Helps make it more portable.

Could this be turned into a "Hackintosh"?

EDIT: As was pointed out - AMD processor, no Mac support for AMD stuff.

here's a video review on CNet

Interesting - it's a hybrid of a netbook and laptop, in both size and power. Perhaps a good choice for a college student...

Doesn't the fact that it has Vista Home Basic mean it's not eligible for a Windows 7 upgrade?

a review i found says 3 hours when watching movies, 4 hours when surfing the web. can read the review here:
http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/08/03/netbook-fight-gateway-lt3103-versus-acer-aspire-one-751h/

nice netbook for the price but the older 1.2 amd processor is sad to see, why would gateway use this why not new atom processors 1.6 at least

with vista itll be sluggish im sure

Ooh, it's kind of like a netbook, but kind of not really.

It's 11"--bigger than your run-of-the-mill netbooks.
It's got Vista--the specs are too high for Microsoft to approve selling XP with it.
It's got AMD--it'll be snappier than Atom counterpart.
It's got 6-cell battery--it SHOULD have a good battery life if mated to Atom netbooks; alas, it's an AMD. The battery life would not be impressive, most likely.

And here's a review, of sorts:
http://techreport.com/articles.x/17249

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More expensive elsewhere, although the new crop of 11.6" with dual cores are out now, they are hot, but twice as much $$$.

How sloooowww is it?

■Operating System: Genuine Windows Vista® Home Basic (32-bit) with SP1

now that's a shame!

yeawuteva wrote:if I play Hulu videos will this have high def quality?

Gateway's website says up to 5 hours

I wouldn't suggest this for anything much more intense than word processing, surfing the net, and listening to music.

widmer69 wrote:Could this be turned into a "Hackintosh"?

Probably not, since it's an AMD processor.

Well, since no one's said anything about it yet, I'll throw in my $0.02 ----

LOVE THE WRITE-UP!! LMAO!

Wave is so........ gimmicky...

theturtleguy wrote:Battery Life?

According to this website, about 3-4 hours:

http://www.liliputing.com/2009/08/battle-of-the-11-6-inch-laptops-acer-aspire-one-751h-v-gateway-lt3103u.html

I have this! I really like it. Don't use it for anything too complicated but it's great with the basics. I can get about 7-8 hours out of the battery with great performance which is lovely for when I'm on the go.

Not to bad of a price, but I'm hoping for something better on Black Friday.

It should support hi-def for Hulu fine, however it might take a while to buffer

Does this qualify for any kind of Windows 7 upgrade?

"They" say Windows 7 is easier on the single processors. I'm currently running Vista on a Celeron.....wheee.