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It was designed to give general consumers those who buy computers at big box retailers a machine that they can afford while also providing them with something that has the features to act as a media machine. The large Synatpics touchpad is responsive and a breeze to move around on with a lightly textured matte finish. The left side has the same glossy space, but only has the power button there. The newer system also offers a larger hard drive for increased media and program storage, which also happens to be quite a bit faster than the previous rpm Hitachi drive. The MDu has the newest 45nm Intel Core 2 Duo T processor, giving it a mild bump in performance over the 64nm T processor with the same clock speed. The higher quality of the materials used combined with the modern design helps give this notebook a look that is usually only shared with models costing two or three times more. The only visible queues that someone familiar with both models would notice is the lack of quick launch program buttons on the left side of the keyboard, no leather palmrest, lack of backlit keyboard, and missing all-glass display.

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This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. The black glossy surface works well with the touch sensitive media buttons, gteway hiding them with the lights turned off.

The MDu has the newest 45nm Intel Core 2 Duo T processor, giving it a mild bump in performance over the 64nm T processor with the same clock speed. Build quality seems solid though the bottom of the case was not perfectly 7818j, causing the front right corner to drop a fraction when pressure was put on it, which in turn, caused the display to shake for a moment.

Gateway M-7818u

Read our review to find out. The notebook itself is 1. By Sal Cangeloso Inside the notebooks users will see a full-sized keyboard without a numberpad and a trackpad surrounded by more of the glossy plastic.

The left side has the same glossy space, but only has the power button there. The newer system also offers a larger hard drive for increased media and program storage, which also happens to be quite a bit faster than the previous rpm Hitachi drive. Internally they share the same chassis and alloy unibody and depending on the configuration it may or may not have a MXM dedicated graphics card.

Battery Life Gateway lists the battery for the MDu has being 48Wh, far under what we found the included battery to be in our review units. Under normal day-to-day use I found the limited tilting movement of the display to be inconvenient. HDTune storage drive performance results: As you tilt the screen forward the screen starts to look washed out, and leaning it back colors darken and invert.

You get a good, but not great processor and a healthy serving of memory. Backlight evenness is average with only a hint of bleed through the bottom edge of the panel. Visit our network of sites: Another issue is that gloss, which will cause glare under certain lighting conditions. This notebook offers many of the same features as its more expensive brother; like the touch-sensitive hidden multimedia keys, classy styling, and excellent build quality.

Key presses are very smooth, with only a light touch needed to trigger a key. This is helped out by the use of integrated graphics, but testing revealed the MDu to have a battery life of about five hours, excellent for a notebook this size and price.

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Two headphone and one microphone jacks. The PCMark Vantage score waswhich is not amazing, but could be much worse.

Contrast is excellent at the optimum viewing sweet spot, but does get washed out slightly if you tilt the screen forward or back. Sensitivity was great, easily tracking my finger with no discernible lag. Heat and Noise Gateway overbuilt the cooling system on the MD series notebook, since it is designed to handle high performance components including dedicated graphics.

The only visible queues that someone familiar with both models would notice is the lack of quick launch program buttons on the left side of the keyboard, no leather palmrest, lack of backlit keyboard, and missing all-glass display.

Optical drive, two USB. Fit and finish is excellent with no noticeable defects on our review unit.

Gateway MD78 Specs - CNET

The large Synatpics touchpad is responsive and a breeze to move around on with a lightly textured matte finish. The system does not have external SATA.

If the system was equipped with a battery rated at 48Wh the estimated time would have been closer to 2 hours and 30 minutes. If you hate blinking or shining LEDs nothing beats a feature like this.

The Gateway MDu is part of a new affordable notebook line that shares most of its components with the high-style MC series. It was designed to give general consumers those who buy computers at big box retailers a machine that they can afford while also providing them with something that has the features to act as a media machine.

If you are watching a movie the only source of light left is the screen.