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Gateway M280 Video Review

- Dennis Rice

-- Rob Bushway 

Gateway launched their Convertible Notebook series last summer and they have been a hit with the consumers – mainly due to price / performance benefit. As you’ll see in our latest video review, it is not a small tablet pc, but if you are looking for screen real estate and a very powerful notebook computer with tablet features, you don’t need to look much further.

I give a tour of the tablet pc, compare it in size to the X41, and then how it would be used in tablet mode. You’ll laugh my attempt at figuring out how to hold the tablet if I were left handed.

  • Watch the Video Review ( 10:13, 47 mb, Flash Video streaming format)
  • Visit the Gateway website
  • Read more about the M280 Convertible Notebook features

Pricing:

  • prices start at $1299


4/7/2006 2:11 PM MST  

Gateway M280 Video Review     Comments [4]  |  Digg This |  del.icio.us |  Citations 
Friday, April 07, 2006 3:01:35 PM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)
Rob,

Another nice video. I never owned a Gateway, that thing is huge. The only thing is, it felt like the video was cut off at the end.

Other then that, thanks, and keep them coming! Are you going to do one on the X41?
Friday, April 07, 2006 3:13:52 PM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)
The phone started ringing just as I was closing it up. I was trying to get this one wrapped before headed to Breckenridge for the weekend, and it was the best spot to close it, right before you could hear the phone.
Saturday, April 08, 2006 3:21:06 PM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)
Thanks for the video. I think this will be great for my Tablet PC development. I need a laptop most of the time but need to test some ink apps I'm writing. Two questions:

1) It seems like the max resolution is a bit disappointing at 1280 x 768 - was that a problem for you?

2) Does this model have biometric fingerprint logon? I don't understand why Gatway doesn't build this into their tablets. When deployed in the field, it is much easier and more secure to use biometric login rather than peck your password on the software keyboard or, worse case, switch from slate back to laptop and use the keyboard. Because using the stylus is more deliberate, someone could easily watch you enter your password. This isn't just for initally login either - XP locks the desktop after staying idle for a while. If you have good passwords that are mixed case + numbers this will be tedious. I would consider this a must-have for production environments.
Monday, April 10, 2006 1:19:02 PM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)
1) no, the resolution was fine. I work ok with 1400 x 1050 down to 1024 x 768. The ls800 I'm using is 800 x 600

2) It does not have biometric built-in, but you could get a pc card for that purpose.
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