How Much Durable Are Gateway Laptops ?

Hello everyone. Im considering to buy a Gateway laptop. Its equipped with AMD A10 4600m APU, 4GB Ram, 320GB HDD and 15.4" screen. Im planning to use it for a atleast 2 years. Laptop which im looking is originally made for Japan region. This is its model number: Gateway NV52L-F48D /GK.

Is Gateway laptops are durable enough to last for 2 years or more.

 

Two years is not gonna be a problem unless you are unlucky and end up with a lemon (but that can happen with any brand).
It should easily last more than that, but how much is hard to tell.

 

Still using my Gateway P7805u laptop. Bought it in Jan 2009 and using it every day for video editing, accounting, word processing etc. No gaming. Five years of heavy daily use and still working. It came with Vista. I installed Win 7-64 and added drivers and external hard drive for backups

 

My P79xx still runs. I would still be using it but Windows 8 cut this short as I wanted the best hardware I could have till 2020 when Windows 7 support runs out.

 

My P7805 was fine until six months ago... (purchased in 2009)

i played some games in low details (DAO, ET, L2, Aion, Tera, StarCraft WoL, Fable, etc) , surfing the web, videos, etc and all was ok.
But 6 months ago i updated my gpu drivers (for a new game) and bios (from 9c.17 to 9c.23), now i cant play any game (frezee every 2 min in game) only web, videos and office.
ATM im working for recover my laptop.

pd:TreeTopsRanch, what drivers version have you using?
pd: sorry for my bad english.

 

The 9c.23.0 will run the GPU hot. You need the 9x.17 or lower. The reason is for the solder issue of NVidia on the 8x00's. Some EARLY 9x00's could still have been involved, though they will say no way, the dates just do not match up.

The P7805's were later generation cards with 1GB. They should not be overly effected if at all. Since the vbios release though is for all P78xx's Gateway applied the NVidia recommended patch across the board. Now if you have a bad graphics card this may prolong life but still expect a premature death of it.

 

Mark, I'm still on GPU driver 285.79. Since it has been running OK, I have not updated to latest driver.

 

thanks everyone for the replies. thats what i wanted to hear. now im definitely going for the gateway. i have never used a AMD processor before. how good are their CPU's i know their built-in gpu's are amazing.

 

Don't go the latest 344.11 I had problems with codec problem stay with 340.52 that is more stable.

 

Laptop last as long as how you take care of it could last 2 yrs or 1 month...but if you clean out the laptop every year of dust bunnies and redo the thermal paste that will insure you laptop will last longer then those that don't do maintenance on the laptop.

I would if you can spend more get a Gateway with iNTEL processor that would better serve you in better. If your tight in budget then go for AMD but for power users wanting more go for iNTEL processor based.

 

My P79xx had been sitting on the shelf for a few months. I just booted it up and updated everything. I found though Aero was not working. It turns out this was an issue with update KB2670838. This was was part of IE11 installation I had done back in 07/2013. Got rid of that which reverted me to IE 8.0, subsequently IE 9 installed, and Aero returned. After over 2 years I finally put the 120gb SSD back as the main boot drive, the original one died and was replaced under warranty.

 

im a bit tight on budget. and Intel based laptops with dedicated graphics card are very expensive almost I need 100$ more. AMD cpus in my region have a bad reputation of overheating a lot. What about A10 APU's ? Is there any report of AMD A series APU's overheating ?