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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