Gateway LT3103u netbook with Athlon CPU reviewed – short battery life is the only complain
Gateway’s LT3103u netbook is one of its kind as it uses AMD Athlon 64 single-core processor @1.2GHz instead of the Intel Atom processors that are used in most of the netbooks. It comes with ATi Radeon graphic card and runs Windows Vista (Basic version). It has an 11.6-inch screen with 1366×768 resolution, 250 GB HDD and 2GB RAM. Chiclet style keys are comfortable to use and have good tactile feedback.
Here is a quote from its review:
“Most netbooks cannot run our PCMark Vantage test, which evaluates overall system performance; the LT3103u scored 1,096 on that test. On our 3DMark06 test, which measures 3D-gaming performance, the LT3103u scored 246 at its native resolution of 1,366×768, and it scored 258 at a resolution of 1,024×768. Both scores are more than double the netbook averages…The LT3103u scored higher on our Cinebench 10 test (a combined measure of graphics and CPU performance) than any netbook we’ve evaluated yet.”
There is only one complaint in this device: short battery life (2 hours 40 minutes)
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I have a gateway LT3103u had used it on balanced mode (power) and am getting from 5 hrs. – 4 hrs. 45 mins. per charge. Am using it now on bat power and started at 4 PM it’s now 6:53 and I still have 2 hrs. and 37 mins. remaining.
I’m on my LT3100 rt now and I agree with jngoi. I get 5-6 hours on this baby easy. There are NO FLAWS in the Lt3100! All other Netbooks must bow-down!
I run on the High-Performance setting and I easily get 4-5 hours on mine. If you want to play games with the sound up all the way and the screen at max brightness it will drop to around 2.5 hrs, but doing anything else it will last plenty long.
This is the best netbook that I have ever used. It is freakishly fast, has a great resolution, perfect size keyboard… it’s just amazing.
Although the most powerful netbook today, the Gateway’s LT3103u netbook battery is short on hours. Fortunately, I found a battery that is 1.5 times more capacity from SolarTorrent web site. Their battery’s cell is made by Sony; I found that out when I hook it up and did a GetInfo on the battery.
It took me 2 days and about 7 hours total to locate one. Share this info. with you. Now, anyone know when the next great netbook with high CPU speed will be or when?