Gateway M500S User Reviews July 6th, 2003 | by Ian Bell
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Average user rating from 19 users |
Awesome....until month 4
by Valentino on Nov 11th, 2004 at 9:43 PM:
I bought this laptop a little over a year ago. When I receeived it, it had a faulty charging system that would only charge the battery every once in a while. The screen is only good for about the first year. The pixels started to die around the edges of the screen. Lastly there is a major fault in the design of air flow. Just recently I found out that there was a major dust buildup that had blocked the cpu fan. In result it slowly burned out my cpu. Unless you want to keep upgrading your warranty and continually send your system back to gateway to fix, I suggest buying a mac.
computer good my luck BAD!
by ralph on Apr 30th, 2004 at 10:29 PM:
ok this computer i mean this 3rd computer worked pretty good. yea thats right u heard me 3rd! first one i got had a dead pixel, 2nd one i got a dead pixel, also the dvd drive got lost and while reinstalling the driver windows got lost too. so they built me one a 3rd. i should have stopped at 2 but i was determined. ive had every problemwith this laptop that you could think of. so i dont know where to start, since there are no more stores they want me to send it in to get serviced for 44$ F**k that! ive got the run around from everyone and now im trying to get my money back fropm case manangement bc i lost a 20 pg paper bc i lost windows again! DO NOT BUY THIS COMPUTER
Heat
by Bob C on Jan 17th, 2004 at 6:07 AM:
I don't have the I really miss the "L" key!noise you mentioned but the heat eminating from the right hand side exhaust vent is intense.
I still haven't received the replacement keys.
Like it but does anyone else have probs?
by A P on Jan 15th, 2004 at 4:08 AM:
I like this laptop very much, mostly because it resembles the apple powerbooks but I could never use on since I need windows. My only problem with this laptop is for the past few months now my fan seems to come on quite often and is also quite loud. Anyone else with this problem? It has become quite annoying and the amount of hot air it seems to blow out also has me concerned. Never was like this when I first got this laptop in September.
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Hidden Features
by Christian on Mar 2nd, 2005 at 9:26 PM:
This laptop in short is the best laptop I've ever owned, as now I've owned it for over 1 1/2 years and it's still meeting some laptops the market today, here's how.
Many people don't look INTO the M500 as I did when I went to go look into upgrading it, this machine is extremely upgradable as I found that if you were to remove the subwoofer, you find a SECOND HDD slot, so these days would give you the abality to have up to 200GB of HDD Space within one laptop, also there is a DVD Burner upgrade available for the laptop, and the Wi-Fi is supported by an internal mini-PCI slot when means many things, if you want, you can remove it and put in any number of things to add functionality, however as a laptop the best action is to leave it as a WiFi port, I upgraded to 802.11g with this nice feature. Also the motherboard manufacture has made it easy to upgrade the processor, just as long as you use the same system bus processor, if I'm not mistaken, that's up to 2.8Ghz. I will admit the processor heat is high, but try sitting a regular P4 chip on your lap, I think you'll prefer the P4-M. This laptop also has the nice feature of having a powered IEEE 1394 (Firewire) port and a non-powered firewire port (aka Mini-DV or DVI) so you can use your powered firewire device along w/ your non powered dvi device, most laptops these days still don't have that feature. So, to this day I love my laptop, as I've less trouble out of it than my desktop or Server running Server 2003 SBS. Yes I did upgrade my laptop to Windows XP Pro as the Home ed. is the sorriest OS ever thoght of. I also upgraded my HDD to 80GB so I'm happely running 5 Different OS's on here: Gentoo Linux 2004, Windows XP Pro, MacOS X 10.3, Darwin (Unix), MacOS 9.2. And I could add Sun Solaris if I wanted to. Hardware compatabality has made all this possible and I praise Gateway for this laptop, we need more like it!