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Gateway M685-E

80

Very Good

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Pros
Nice high-resolution screen
Fairly light for a big notebook
Cons
Keyboard takes some getting used to

Performance: Very Good: 89
Features: Good: 72
Design: Good: 74

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

Performance
ACD Systems ACDSee	563
Adobe Photoshop	286
Adobe Premiere	415
Ahead Nero	763
Battery Life (Office Applications)	3:41
Discreet 3ds Max DirectX	259
Discreet 3ds Max OpenGL	277
Doom 3, 1024 by 768, 32-Bit	103.23
Far Cry, 1024 by 768, 32-Bit	131.16
Microsoft Office XP	520
Mozilla	324
Musicmatch Jukebox	441
Number of Included Batteries	1
Roxio VideoWave	237
Windows Media Encoder	272
WinZip	372
World Bench 5 Score	109
World Bench 5 Word Score	Very Good

WorldBench Tests
Multitasking	400

What You Should Know about the M685-E

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.