Gateway P7901H
Gateway’s P7901h, aims to help wean gamers from desktops to notebooks by offering a surprisingly rich mobile gaming experience without leaving a crater in your bank account.
The dual-hinge design is sturdy, and there aren’t any creaks or squeaks, despite the pure plastic chassis. The keyboard is full-sized and has a numeric keypad on the right, and the touchpad is smooth and sensitive, though the mouse buttons clack a little loudly for our liking. A 4.1kg mass makes Gateway’s notebook a bit heavy for its category, but its 1.5-inch girth is about average. Put simply, the P7901h looks like your basic 17-inch notebook, just with some gaudy flare Gateway hopes will appeal to gamers.
As we’ve already mentioned, the P7901h doesn’t have much in the way of extras, opting instead to give gamers as much power as possible for minimum price. Under the hood you’ll find a GeForce GTX 260M with 1GB of discrete DDR3 video memory, 4GB of all-purpose DDR3 RAM, and an Intel Core2 Quad Q9000 processor running at 2.0GHz with a 1066 front side bus. These components combine to create a Windows Experience Index of 5.7.
