However, you can still use it for really simple operations or for a second computer in your home, as it is still a laptop with very good display and sells very cheap. Any way I don't think you would like to carry it around, so it is better to be used as a desktop computer replacement.
It is solid and not pretty heavy, weighing around 6 pounds. It has a reasonable size keyboard and touchpad and also a built-in optical drive. The laptop features an INTEL Mobile Pentium M 1.5Ghz CENTRINO processor running at a speed of about 3.0Ghz, which isn't the best one ever, but still good. The 40GB Ultra ATA 133 Hard Drive and the memory - 7200 RPM 512MB PC2700 DDRAM are the two major components that ensure a storage space for the software applications and the documents you want to save on your computer, as well as for the music and movies that you might enjoy watching to make use of the crystal clear display that measures 15 inches in diagonal.
This LCD Monitor, SXGA Type can support a resolution of 1400x1050 and offers up to 16.7 million colours, so the view of this screen is spectacular. Even if the model is a bit older, the quality of the display is unquestionable. If you combine all the video features of this laptop provided by the graphics card with all the audio possibilities , that is the Integrated Surround Sound System, you get a really nice looking and totally functional home video device that you can use for enetertainment activities like listening to music or watching movies.
The Gateway laptop 450rog is not a closed entoty but it communicates with the outside in order to bring in or take out information and files, audio or video. In order to do this it needs some ports: 2 USB ports 2.0 where you can connect any peripherals you want to like a computer mouse, keyboard, printer, outer monitor, etc, 1 parallel port, 1 PS/2 port for the computer mouse and one for the keyboard and also one LAN port.
You can connect this device to the internet if you want and use it for reading your email and sending messages and communicate with all your friends and family. There is no web camera or microphone incorporated, because they were introduced in the more recent laptops, but you can use one of the ports to connect these devices to your laptop if you want to have both video and audio connection or maybe organize video conferences online for business purposes. Any way this is a valuable asset for the ridiculous amount of money that you will spend to purchase it. (I saw an offer for $82 on Amazon).
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