We recently looked at Gateway’s Core 2 Duo-based gaming machine, the FX510XG, which performed well, but we were let down by the company’s lackluster tech support. Its midrange DX310X also handled itself quite well given its ho-hum specifications and was a great all-around experience. We were also impressed with its desktop replacement notebook, the NX860X, which is the predecessor to the notebook we’re evaluating this time around. The main differences between the NX860X and the “XL” version are that the XL has a Core 2 Duo compared to the Core Duo in the NX860X, and the XL’s extra gigabyte of memory for 2GB total. The XL also has a higher-resolution display and a faster GPU with the 7900 GS compared to the 7600 GS in our previous system.



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