Gateway P-171XL FX Edition

January 14th, 2008 | by Josh Norem

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It's truly a remarkable achievement to offer this much power at a reasonable price point.


Highs: Very responsive and fast; great for gaming; decent battery life; semi-affordable

Lows: Pre-installed trialware is useless; no DVI-out

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Introduction

Editor's Choice

Gateway has revamped its FX line of gaming desktop and laptop systems in hopes to take a bite of market share away from HP and Dell. We got our hands on the top-of-the-line P-171 XL FX notebook and came away extremely impressed. This is a flagship notebook with every next-gen component available, including NVIDIA’s new 8800 mobile GPU and a 2.8GHz dual-core Core 2 Extreme processor. Though Gateway has given it the usual “OEM” treatment in the form of lame trialware complete with “Try AOL” links on the desktop, the company has packed this notebook with so much performance and sassiness that we almost don’t mind.




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