Gateway NX100X Best Budget Ultra Portable Design
The Gateway NX100X is well known for its very low price for such a lightweight laptop, this NX100X is extremely portable and has a very sleek design of 12.1 inches wide and 12.1 inches of display and of course do include a 5 in 1 media card reader. If you are either a home user or a business user and seeking for an inexpensive and ultra portable notebook, then it is very pleasing to see the well beautifully designed Gateway NX100X. The NX100X is built with minimalism feature. One point to be noted with the built of the NX100X is that it has forgone the built in optical drive which is to reduce the higher price tempted on it.
The Gateway NX100X is said to be the Best budget ultra portable design, as with its cheaper price which is built mainly for the basic home and home based business user’s use, and the NX100X is with sleek black case, brushed aluminum details and with the dark blue status lights. In order to reduce its pricing problem and the sizing problem the NX100X tends to lack two or more important features and hardware follows as the built in optical drive, few multi media controls and of course some of the built in business level security features. But this has succeeded in its best budget and ultra portable design. This notebook is priced many hundreds of dollars less than that of those fully loaded models.
The NX100X do have a 1.2GHz Intel Core Solo ultra low voltage processor which is supported with a 512MB of 533MHz RAM, an 80GB hard drive spinning at 5,400 RPM, and integrated Intel graphics with 128MB of system memory. The NX100X’s do possess only a single-core processor to afford its price.
The NX100X is just less than an inch thick and weighs only 3.2 pounds and the dimension of this notebook do complement its minimalism. The NX100X features only a 12.1 inches wide screen display with a 1280 x 800 native resolution screen, with this NX100X gives out a finer resolution. But with these the NX100X produces the images crisp, the text looked slightly blurred, and the display look as if to be fairly bright.
Then with the keyboard as the screen is bigger keyboard spaced to be better roomed. The typing with this notepad keyboard is not much comfy as it is built with the shallow travel of keys. It is built up with regular but small sized touch pads, mouse buttons. The NX100X comes with only one single power button above the keyboard. Next with the ports and slots of the NX100X considered, there are 4 pin Firewird, and 2 nearly placed USB 2.0 ports and a headphone and a microphone jacks. There is a Type II PC card reader but no Express cards.
When talking on the Networking connections, the NX100X do comprise of the modem, Gigabit Ethernet card, and 802.11a/b/g Wi-Fi with the optional Bluetooth. Using the USB port the external DVD burner could be attached if you afford one for your must purpose. But when apropos the business level security the NX100X do lack the Finger print reader and a trusted platform module. The battery life of the NX100X is merely of average with 3 hours and 6 minutes with its 3 cell battery. When your usage of the built-in optical drive is less, then the economical choice would be, Gateway NX100X
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