Gateway’s New Ultraportable…

After reading up on http://JKontherun.com, one of my fav websites, I found out that Gateway was coming out with a “Notebook” with a Netbook Soul. So I decided to check out the specs on this new netbook (I think it qualifies as a Netbook even though it has a screen bigger than 10 inches. I categorize it as a netbook for the following:

1. It has no optical drive
2. It runs on a single core processor (in this case, the AMD instead of Intel Atom)
3. It also comes with many of the other features.

Some of the key elements I particularly like about this netbook are the following:

• The ATI Radeon chipset. I’m thinking this computer is capable of superb youtube playback and 720p HD playback.
• The fact that it’s using the AMD CPU, giving it a little more boost.
• 250GB Hard Drive and Multi-Card reader. For all your multimedia files.
• 2GB of RAM stock. We’ll have to see if you can bump it up.

The bad:

• Windows Vista SP1…hahaha, are you serious?
• 0.3 MP webcam
• Bloatware (MS Works and Norton)
• 11.6 screen. (I don’t know if it’s bad…)

The price for this netbook is $399.99 USD. It’ll probably be available by late summer or early fall.

If anyone gets it, drop me a line.

I wonder how well it can run Linux, cuz if I get it…Windows Vista is going down. I also wonder if Acer will put Windows 7 on this when it comes out, since it’ll probably run it decently.