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Gateway E-100M

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Pros
Stylish and light
Good keyboard
Cons
Optical drive not integrated
Modest performance

Performance: Poor: 48
Features: Very Good: 80
Design: Fair: 67

Find out how these scores, and their relative weights, combine to produce the PC World Rating.

Performance
ACD Systems ACDSee	923
Adobe Photoshop	518
Adobe Premiere	642
Ahead Nero	1262
Battery Life (Office Applications)	1:58
Discreet 3ds Max DirectX	517
Discreet 3ds Max OpenGL	868
Doom 3, 1024 by 768, 32-Bit	5.2
Far Cry, 1024 by 768, 32-Bit	5.82
Microsoft Office XP	621
Mozilla	591
Musicmatch Jukebox	823
Number of Included Batteries	1
Roxio VideoWave	483
Windows Media Encoder	675
WinZip	579
World Bench 5 Score	64
World Bench 5 Word Score	Fair

WorldBench Tests
Multitasking	1092

What You Should Know about the E-100M

Not Much RAM for Multitasking

The more RAM your laptop has, the faster programs will run and the greater number of windows you can work in at one time. If your needs are simple and you rarely do more than two things at once on your PC, the relatively modest amount of memory that comes installed in inexpensive laptops will be enough. Today the standard amount of RAM shipped in most PCs is 2GB. If you like to multitask--say, you want to launch a search for a file and start backing up data to a disc while you watch a news video--you need more memory.