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Gateway ID49C07u

By doctortdm (cnet.com) Read the full review

full featured, stylish, light laptop at a very good price

light weight, keyboard well laid out, fast, very good graphics

don't care for Best Buy's software nor Norton's software being a pest

Jan, 2010 2010-01-01 5 cnet.com

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an excellent value.The perfect student laptop. I would definitely recomend it. i would only worry about the chargers quality as my previous gateway charger didn't last very long.

at first glance you'd think the id49c07u is worth way more than it actually is

the touchpad can be alittle bit akward but you get used to it, the sound quality is great but you dont get much volume

Jan, 2010 2010-01-01 4.5 cnet.com

Gateway ID49C07u

By jordonmeyer (cnet.com) Read the full review

Terrible computer all because of the touchpad. I am writing this and literally packing up to take it back to best buy. I gave it 5 days and it's cause SO much frustration with not being able to efficiently click or use the mouse. Don't buy.

Slim, Looks great, performance is good with i3 processor

Touchpad / mouse is ridiculously impossible to use. Takes 3-6 clicks for one to register. Sliding your finger usually doesn't register very well with the touchpad

Jan, 2010 2010-01-01 1.5 cnet.com

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alaTest has collected and analyzed 25 reviews from magazines and websites. Comments about the design and value for money are generally positive, but the keyboard and touchpad get less positive views. Comments are divided on the screen.

We analyzed user and expert ratings, product age and more factors. Compared to other Laptops the Gateway ID49C07u is awarded an overall alaScore™ of 78/100 = Good quality.

May, 2012 2012-05-15 alaScore 78 3.9

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Gateway ID49C07u

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Slim, eye-catching design; Core i3 processor; affordable price

Awkward backlit touch pad is very uncomfortable to use; screen feels washed-out; flimsy keyboard

As a thin, affordable Core i3 laptop, the Gateway ID49C07u excels as an attractively priced back-to-school buy; however, its ergonomics and thin feature set might turn others off.

Aug, 2010 2010-08-05 3.5 cnet.com

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Highly Capable, Affordable Laptop Has a Touch of Class

By Christopher Null (wired.com)

Dashing good looks and cutting-edge performance don't have to come at a steep price, and for scholars heading back to school this fall, there's only a handful

Solid performance for a great budget price. Modern styling. Well-positioned USB ports. Very portable, fairly lightweight and quite slim

Still not used to the mega-click touchpad after a week of testing. Keyboard has next to no travel. Needs a serious kick in the graphics pants

Aug, 2010 2010-08-26 4

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Gateway ID49C07u

By Sarah Jacobsson Purewal (pcworld.com)

The Gateway ID49C07u is a slim, eye-catching 14-inch laptop with a pretty good price--just under $580 at the time of this review. The ID49C07u (a Best Buy exclusive model) has a 2.28GHz Intel Core i3 processor, 4GB of memory, a 500GB hard drive, a...

Good price ; Extremely thin and attractive

Touchpad is not very responsive ; Keyboard is a dust magnet

This laptop is very stylish, especially for the price, but it sacrifices performance for sexiness.

It runs Windows 7 Home Premium.

Aug, 2010 2010-08-30 3.5

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Gateway ID49C07u

By Michael A. Prospero (laptopmag.com)

This notebook's glowing touchpad isn't for everyone, but it delivers good performance and a sleek design at an affordable price.

Consumers looking for an inexpensive notebook that still has a sense of style should check out the Gateway ID49C07u. Not only is its metallic lid classy, but the notebook has decent performance figures to back it up. While we wish battery life was a...

Ultimately, the ID's glowing touchpad seems a little gimmicky, but we like that Gateway tried something new on a system that isn't for the uber-rich.

Jul, 2010 2010-07-16 3

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Gateway ID49C07u

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The 14-inch widescreen has good viewing angles, but isn't any different than other screens in its class. That's because its resolution, like that of every other 14-inch laptop, is limited to 1,366 by 768. Still, it's a productive screenwide enough so...

Trendy aluminum design. Glowing touchpad is a neat gimmick. Very inexpensive. Four USB ports. Fast Core i3 processor. Very good battery life

Flexing keyboard. Noisy, springy touchpad

The Gateway ID49C07u is designed like an Apple MacBook Pro, at a fraction of the cost.

4 pcmag.com

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alaTest has collected and analyzed 13 user reviews of the Gateway ID49C07u from cnet.com. The user reviews were collected from Jan, 2010 to Jan, 2010. The average user rating from cnet.com is 65 out of 100.

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Overall for it's price the Gateway ID49C07u is an exceptional laptop, with many great features. This laptop is sure to deliver not only in performance

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full featured, stylish, light laptop at a very good price light weight, keyboard well laid out, fast, very good graphics don't care for Best Buy's so

Gateway ID49C07u

Thin and eye-catching one thing i dont like is that it gets really warm when it is working hard to run things like advanced games. also, the keyboard

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full featured, stylish, light laptop at a very good price light weight, keyboard well laid out, fast, very good graphics don't care for Best Buy's so

8 Users positive 5 Users negative

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alaTest has collected and analyzed 7 user reviews of the Gateway ID49C07u from amazon.com. The user reviews were collected from May, 2011 to Mar, 2012. The average user rating from amazon.com is 46 out of 100.

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It's okay. Not the best computer I've had, but I'm sure there are worse.

If you're a gamer, then this isn't a computer for you; find something with a dual-core processor and a lot of RAM; those computers will be more expens

Piece of Garbage

I bought this computer a little over a year ago, after reading the marginal reviews and "taking my chances". Oops. Low and behold, just like several o

Garbage with a Pretty Case

Last year I was looking for an affordable notebook computer for basic tasks such as writing web code, office documents, and occasionally watching Netf

Just ok

I've had this laptop for a little over a year now. It worked really well at first. But the past couple of months or so it has been locking up quite a

3 Users positive 4 Users negative