Back to School" - The GatewayM250S

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Summer is well and truly here folks, and we understand it's far too hot to go hardware hunting for a discount. So relax by the poolside, and keep sipping on that chilled 3 olive martini. Team Laptopical have unearthed a Gateway, that could be a perfect choice for a college student, or small business owner.

Summer ishere folks, and it's far too hot to leave the pool, and gohardware hunting for that laptop deal. No worries, stay by the poolside, and keep sipping on thatchilled 3 olive martini - Leave the tedious work of finding abargain for college or business to team Laptopical.

As promised we've managed to dig up a deal not quite as affordable as ashoeshine and cab ride home, but almost.....Gateway have just slashed the price of the M250S entry level laptop to under 700 dollars. This computer weighs 5.2 pounds, comesequipped with a 14 inch widescreen display, 40 GB hard drive,256MB DDR2 SDRAM, and a 1.4GHz Intel Celeron M 360 processor - Pentium M's baby brother.

Sporting a Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 900, the GatewayM250s isn't the best machine for running the latest games, butcertainly the M250s is a solid choice for surfing the web,checking email, compiling spreadsheets, word processing etc.

What else do you get for 699 dollars? I'm afraid little morethan 3 USB ports, a firewire port, 1 PC card slot, and a 24xCD-RW/DVD-ROM. As you can see there are not many bells andwhistles with this puppy, but the basic model isconfigurable.

The Gateway M250S is being billing as a "back to school"laptop, and we think it's a good no frills machine, with respectableperformance. As for hard line gamers, move along now, nothing more to see here.

Visit Gateway.com to check availability and pricing ofthe M250S notebook.

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