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Through some loophole, wormhole or deal with the devil, Gateway has produced a massive desktop replacement that’s fast, good and cheap. How fast, you ask? Fast enough to go toe-to-toe with — and school — a $4,800 Alienware Area 51 m15x: In our Quake 4 test, the Gateway posted a score of 167.8 fps to the m15x’s 167.2. This is partially because the Gateway’s 512-MB Nvidia Geforce 9800M is running the show. The FX also has Olympic endurance for larger-class notebooks, going 2 hours, 23 minutes to play a DVD.
And that brings us to the cheap part. The Gateway is just $1,400 — more than three times less than the Alienware and hundreds (and more hundreds) less than most other desktop replacement machines. Sure, it lacks the latest processor (it’s got a 2.27-GHz Core Duo), but it has a whopping 4 GB of RAM to help it attack processing tasks […]

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