The Gateway EC5809u is an ultra-slim notebook, with clean design that includes an optical drive. The size of Gateway EC5809u is 15.6 inch with 16:9 aspect ratio LED display. Its energy efficient design let it to run about 8 Hrs on single charge, but has let down its performance to get this amount of backup by using Low Voltage Core 2 Duo processor. The Gateway EC5809u is thin and light but has a large screen. When we talk about large laptops, how much slim is it, it does not matter at all because consumers are less interested in buying the large size laptops.
Design
Performance and graphics
Configuration
Design
At a Glance the 15 incher Gateway EC5809u, looks much similar to that of Acer Timeline series. Even though Gateway EC5809u comes under large sized laptops but it is really light and slim. The EC5809u has denim blue metal lid, that area also available in silver color. It has the traditional Gateway logo positioned at tad off center. The lid opens smoothly revealing the clean interior, featuring the lusterless black all around the keyboard with track-pad. It has the glossy 16:9 aspect ratio LED screen. The battery is positioned perfectly underneath, that gives the smooth flat base. The most important feature included is this completely slim laptop is its optical drive. The number pad is positioned at the right side is pretty convenient to use and have flat keyboard. The thin function key is provided at the top for brightness and volume adjustments. It has wider touch pad than the normal ones that supports multi touch.
Performance and graphics
The Gateway EC5809u use Intel SU7300 CPU and a Core 2 Duo processor. The performance of the processor is not so good. But still slowly try to approach towards the performance of Intel Core 2 Duo-type. The Gateway EC5809u does not perform well on both single and multi tasking application when compare with new Core i3 or i5 processor, although it offers pretty good full screen HD video streaming and other media-viewing tasks. That makes it pretty good media viewing laptop. So we can say that the performance ok but not up to satisfaction.
Configuration
The Gateway EC5809u comes with the Low Voltage 1.3 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo ULV SU7300 processor to increase the battery performance. It has 320 GB of hard drive with 4GB, 1066MHz DDR3 RAM installed on it. The 15.6 inch TFT active matrix display screen with Intel GMA 4500MHD might satisfy you while viewing multimedia files. It has fitted with optical disk drive for burning the DVD, three USB2.0 ports and SD card reader.
At last conclusion can be made as for this amount of money the Gateway EC5809u performance and design is not good in this price range. It has nothing new in it and also runs with last generation ULV processors, which cannot be compared with Core i3 or i5. The Gateway also lacks the dedicated graphics outside the underpowered Intel integrated processor.
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