The Gateway One

As soon as I saw this PC I liked it. It’s the latest model from Gateway, the cow hide PC manufacturer, snazzily entitled the Gateway One. And I think with its radical design - yes I know Apple fans its old skool for you - it could be a winner. Within ten seconds of reading the specs I was already working out where I’d mount the monitor/PC on the wall in my office.

Anyway let’s put its looks aside for a moment and check what’s under the bonnet. The top of the range US$1,800 model sports a Intel® Core 2™ Duo T7250 dual-core processor, ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 2600 XT graphics card and 500 GB of SATA II storage in the form of a couple of HDDs. All models boast a 19 inch LCD widescreen display which also contains the processor, HDDs, a DVD drive, seven USB 2.0 ports, a FireWire port, a couple of memory slots and ‘hidden’ speakers.

The keyboard and mouse are both wireless and the unit boasts 802.11n wireless connectivity. So with one cable (yes just the one) you can connect this sucker up and away you go with your fully functional internet ready PC. As mentioned before the monitor/PC is wall mountable thus saving even more precious desk/floor space. The guts of the unit are easily accessible via a couple of latches situated on the back of the monitor.

So on paper the ‘One’ looks pretty good and certainly gets a big ten out of ten on design and space-saving. I do wonder how stable the unit is as on some side views of the monitor/PC the stand at the back of the unit doesn’t look that big, but hopefully the heavier components would have been placed at the bottom to enhance stability.

For the more frugal amongst us the bottom end model sports an Intel® Core 2™ Duo T5250 dual-core processor, Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3100 card and 320 GB of storage but consequently sports a more wallet friendly price tag of US$1,200.

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Posted in Hardware by JB