Editor Rating 70.0/100 Published on February 6, 2007
Includes a full-size keyboard...Heavy for a tablet PC...Today Toshiba and Acer sell their own 14.1-inch-screen tablets, but none as powerful as Gateway's latest offering, the M285-E...The M285-E uses Intel's new 2-GHz Core 2 Duo T7200 processor, so it's as fast as any standard notebook on the market, and its 256MB ATI Mobility Radeon X1400 graphics card...
Powerful components...Good graphics...14-inch widescreen...Extended battery...Internal optical drive....Heavy...512MB RAM....Case in point is the GatewayM285-E ($1,843 direct as tested...The M285-E is a hefty convertible tablet with plenty of screen space and power......
• Good processing speed
• Excellent keyboard
• Strong stylus performance
• DVD Burner...• Sluggish hard drive
• Mediocre LCD
• Heavy and large...The M285-E has power, albeit unevenly distributed...If you can stand the weight, the M285-E has some good tablet features...The stylus is thicker than most and has a good...
Summary from 16 user reviews Average Rating 3.0/10
Gateway has impressed me though; the character recognition is pretty darn good and the attractive set of software that comes with the tablet functionality makes it a very sturdy package...Overall, i would definatly make this puchase again, only thing they could improve would be put 2 headfone jacks, USB ports on the rigt side, and maybey an x1600 instead of the 1400...Full desktop/laptop replacement,...
At first, I wasn't terribly impressed...If reliability is what you're interested in, (on my machine at least), I can recommend it 100% as a system you can give, say, to a 14-year old teen and it (the Gateway) will survive an average 14-year old teenage standard of care...If you are in need of a tablet, I would definately recommend the Gateway convertible...
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