Refurbished Gateway Laptop
So why buy a refurbished Gateway laptop? Well Gateway has been running some good deals through their retail outlets such as Best Buy, Circuit City & Staples. There are several features I like about these Gateway units that Dell and others at the time were not able to match. First, there is the 15.4 inch WXGA screen with super bright. At the time, many OEMs were only providing 14inch or smaller screens. Another thing I liked was that these units come with a DVD burner. Again, most OEMs at the time were still using CD burners + DVD players.
In addition, these units have four USB ports, built in modems and a superb wireless system. I should mention the 4 + 1 card reader is another handy addition.
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Price : US$ 369.99
The Gateway M-1624 offers multimedia possibilities in a lightweight 6.4-pound chassis that's packed with the features. This versatile laptop comes loaded with an AMD Turion 64 X2 Dual-core TL-60 2 GHz processor.
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Price : US$ 439.99
Get stunning multimedia performance in your living room or on the go with the Gateway M series notebooks. This computer features a powerful cinema-quality entertainment features in a sleek, stylish design.
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Price : US$ 379.99
Get mobile computing and HD media access with the Gateway T-series laptop. This notebook computer will help you stay in touch with its 1.3-megapixel webcam and quick-access multimedia control panel.
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Price : US$ 429.99
Get stunning multimedia performance in your living room or on the go with the Gateway M series notebook computer. This laptop is powerful enough to provide cinema-quality entertainment in a sleek and stylish design.
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Price : US$ 499.99
Get stunning multimedia performance in your living room or on the go with the Gateway M series notebooks. This computer features a sleek interface and intuitive features that let you control all your media with ease.
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Why would you buy a refurbished Gateway laptop? The first thing that pops in your mind is that there must have been something mechanically wrong with the laptop in the first place. This may be the case, however many times it is not. In addition, refurbished laptops are thoroughly tested before they are sold as refurbished laptops even more so then the newer models, so you can be sure that they will work properly when they arrive. There are those rare occasions where they are damaged during shipping but this can happen to a new laptop as well.
There are a number of reasons laptops are returned like:
- The system runs slow. With all of the junk that OEMs put on these systems, your first out of the box experience may not be what you would expect. However, once you spend a few hours cleaning off the freebies and trial-ware off any new system, they will spring back to life.
- Missing parts such as power cables or CD’s are common. Sometimes the units may have missing hardware when they are shipped.
- For some people it may have been their first laptop experience and they do not understand that laptop systems will not run as well as their desktops did. That is just the nature of the beast although they have made some great improvements lately.
- For others, it my have been a gift that they open, played with, than returned.
- We also have the people who just cannot get use to the system and give up thinking that computers are just to complicated for them to use.
I am sure there are other reasons why systems are returned as well. Nevertheless, the bottom line is once the box and is opened and the computer is used, they cannot be sold as new. They then carry the term ‘refurbished‘. The downside is that these units normally come with a reduced warranty period. In the case of the above Gateway, it is typically 90 days.