New Laptop: Gateway M-6841

I finally broke down after all these years of not having a laptop, and bought one at Circuit City last month. I deliberated for probably 3-4 weeks looking for the best choice on a new lappy; I looked at Dell's, HP's, Acer's, Gateway's, even a MAC (shudders). After looking at the mass numbers of my client's who own DELL's and had problems with them, I nixed that brand altogether. MAC's, although more than capable of doing what I want in a machine and running dual-boot MAC OSX & Windows with programs like Parallels or Boot Camp, the price was over my limit. Toshiba's have long been what I've recommended to other customers of mine looking at getting a decent laptop for a great price, but after finding this Gateway on Circuit City's website last month for $669, I couldn't pass it up. Decked out with a Core2Duo 1.83 GHz processor, 3GB DDR2 667MHz RAM, an Intel Centrino chipset, abg Wifi, 1.3MP webcam, 250GB SATA HD, DVDRW, along with a host of other goodies like a multimedia card slot, this baby rocks. I've had a solid month to play with this lappy: taking it on a business trip to Des Moines, IA, back and forth to several client visits, having it as my secondary workstation at the office, and using it at home occasionally and so far I'm impressed for what I paid for it.

I'll take some shots of it later and post them here, but for now Gateway's got my thumb's up!