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    Gateway LT3103u Netbook Short initial impressions

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by psxsage, Jul 23, 2009.

  1. psxsage

    psxsage Notebook Evangelist

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    Just bought this badboy from Bestbuy two days ago. This is hardly a "Review" yet but thus far I'll note a few initial concerns/joys.

    Pros
    Great screan bright and crisp
    Nice keyboard easy to use and large
    Wi-Fi connection is great
    The machine is FAR zippier under Vista basic then most would expect.

    Concerns/Possible cons

    Heat is higher then normal for a netbook ( i think largely due to the CPU used) I will run some numbers at a later point.

    Battery rubber feet were uneven and caused the netbook to wobble when typing (replaced the feet myself)

    Battery life not as impressive as ASUS

    Screen a bit hard to unlatch at times.


    If people are more interested in this model I will happily write something more in depth. Or if you have a specific question/Benchmark/Game you would like me to try ask and i will do my best to accommodate you.
     
    psxsage, Jul 23, 2009
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  2. ayeaye06

    ayeaye06 Newbie

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    hi, have you tried playing steam games on it? if you have can you tell me the frame rates you get (ie on counter strike/ teamfortress 2/ etc)

    thanks in advance
     
    ayeaye06, Jul 31, 2009
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  3. joshthor

    joshthor 100% Crazy Sauce

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    i would also love it if you could try some games, expecially modern ones cod4, bioshock - both these have demos too
     
    joshthor, Jul 31, 2009
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    nossirag Notebook Enthusiast

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    I'm highly interested in picking this little guy up as I'm without my own home computer for almost a month and just fell in love with it at Best Buy.

    How well does it play source games (Half Life 2, Left 4 Dead, Team Fortress 2, etc). I think a lot of us are wondering about Valve games running off of the Source engine. I'm hoping this puppy can run most Source games at 1280x768 or native resolution with low-medium settings. I think it would be just grand!

    Any other gaming tests would be great. I'm wondering if a small overclock on this netbook's highly underclocked GPU would help at all.
     
    nossirag, Aug 1, 2009
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  5. demarco05

    demarco05 Notebook Geek

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    important question guys, i wiped this netbook out and installed windows 7 without making any restore/drivers discs (i know im stupid) is there anyway someone can make copies of them and mail them to me? I will send $15 dollars via paypal if anyone is able to do it, let me know, thanks ([email protected])
     
    demarco05, Aug 4, 2009
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  6. LightofHonor89

    LightofHonor89 Notebook Guru

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    You wont be able to play any of the source games very well. I have one and left 4 dead plays at ~10-15 fps at lowest resolution and settings.... so yeah only games that are a few years old will play well (ala Warcraft 3, WoW, Max Payne, Emulators?) :)

    Overclocking the CPU to 1.6ghz makes a big difference in a lot of things, but the GPU is severely underclocked and I have yet to find a way to raise it.


    And demaroco005, you should have a emergency partion on your HDD, did you erase that too?
     
    LightofHonor89, Aug 5, 2009
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  7. sherl0k

    sherl0k Notebook Enthusiast

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    The 3103u indeed has a recovery partition on it.
     
    sherl0k, Aug 5, 2009
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  8. joshthor

    joshthor 100% Crazy Sauce

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    left 4 dead is a seriously more challenging game to play, i only play it on medium with my laptop when i can crank half life 2, portal and css to max settings with some aa. can you try like hl2 and see how it runs?
     
    joshthor, Aug 5, 2009
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