i swore i would never buy another gateway

i swore i would never buy another gateway.... so i bought a 6860fx, who woulda thought. after spending the last 4 months with my MT3705 constantly going into thermal hybernation, i told myself i would never buy another gateway after all the lost homework assignments, and the occasional kara boss fight interupted (i dont play wow anymore).
but the more i think of it, the MT i had, has endured over 4000+ hours of use in the last year and a half, which in my book, is pretty good for a low buck bestbuy lappy. the more i got looking into it, all the games i used it for, all the photo editing and 3d rendering that ive used it for, ran smooth and flawlessly on a 1.73ghz cpu and 1 gig of ram (thats including shared graphics running on vista, all on 1gb of ram? is it possible? and to have it run so smooth).
plus i cannot count the number of times that laptop has been dropped, kicked, tripped over and even had my drink spill on the keyboard on 2 or 3 separate occasions. to be honest, i would still be using the MT if it didnt overheat. props gateway, you have built a machine thats survived a student thats been through 6 cars and 8 cellphones.
affordability?? 999.99 for the 6860 fx? deal! i was about to buy a hp hdx16t but they decided to drop a bunch of the key options a day before i ordered. (such as 4gigs of ram, 1500+ for a lappy with 3gigs? might aswell buy an apple)

 

Had my Gateway E-4600 desktop for 8+ years and its still my main use of entertainment. ****.....I need my new laptop QUICK

 

Welcome to the club... I also took the plunge and got a 6860FX. I never thought I'd own a Gateway either. I've wanted a gaming laptop for a while but was thinking more along the lines of a Sager... but then I got an awesome deal on the 6860FX.

Back in 2001 I was working for DoD and had a Gateway Solo 2500. It was OK on Windows 2000 but then we upgraded everything to XP. OMG it was soooo slooow. Not enough RAM to run XP and it crawled. I hated working on those things because they were so dog slow. I turned it back in because I was sick of it but a few users still had them. Then we replaced them with Dells and I was assigned a D610 for a while. It was OK for Office or Web browsing, but gaming? Forget it. I remember staying in Denver for a month and trying to run Rome Total War on it.. LOL! Yeah right!

Then in 2006 I got laid off and haven't had a laptop until now.

So now here I am with a Gateway again, I never would have believed it.

Oh yeah, I shipped all those Gateway Solo 2500's to Iraq in 2004. Who knows what happened to them from there!

 

they were the WMD's we were looking for.

 

The 6860 certainly rocks. With the closeout prices due to the 7811 being out, it's a heck of a good deal if you can find them in stock anywhere...