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(More customer reviews)This is a quick review as I got this yesterday and I wanted it fresh in my mind. Bear in mind I was a tech for several years before I retired. It didn't do all I thought it would but that's dish and windows fault primairly. I bought this with a new 42 inch plasma, wireless logitech keyboard and mouse, with the intent of surfin and watching tv from my recliner ! Guess what, it works DYNAMITE. Everything went together like butter in less than two hours and then I started fine tuning. I really took a while to dig out how to set up the web to be able to read it at a distance but it can be done and the info is out there, just takes some digging. The other problem was getting windows media player to play and record tv programs off dish's tv 2 output, was ready to pull what little hair I have left out, but persistance paid off .I told the thing a couple of lies and wala it works. one of the amazing things I used the HDMI out of the set top as one input to the tv and the HDMI output of the 2801 as the other . Switched back n forth on the same movie the set top feed was 720 and the PC output was 1080. So definately some serious upscaling on the pc side. To my ol eyes the pictures were about equal and the input to the pc was 480 over a rg 6 cable. So it is doing every thing I hoped as I sit here in my recliner and type this. The only other thing that took time was setting up the browser to display as I wanted it. Over all this is a great system, lighting fast for surfin the web. I am not a gamer so I have all the speed I need here. Try it you may like it. If I have problems I will come back and up date this but I don't expect any.
UPDATE- Well its been on line 3+ weeks now without a burp. The more I use it the better I like it. I haven't been on he desktop since I got it except to set up and transfer some files, Windows 7 and a good router made that a breeze. The other nice thing is with the size and speed of this systen I added all my music to it so I can listen to a nice varity of music and not worry about space. I added another CDR to it as I wanted light scribe and its always nice to be able to direct copy. cost me $55. If I keep adding files I may need more HD somewhere down the road and the eSATA port will make that easy.
Update::::: Well I lowered the stars from 5 to 3 I just emailed tech with a simple question ..... Is the pcie x 16 slot video only and they offered to put me in contact with customer support for a small fee !!!!! are you kidding me, pay for an answer to a question that should be avaliable in documentarion. Btw the documention is a pos.
I think gateway is trying to replace packard bell. The old techs will remember them well lol. Reason being Thanks to A poor description of the outputs on the JBOD i just bought off amazon (it requires 2 esata slots not 1 as the same product with raid does) So I got stuck and tried to put in a pcie card. The system is still doing a good job but I doubt i will ever bother trying to repair it if it fails as no help or documention makes it impossible to do.
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Gateway SX2801-05 Desktop PC comes with these specs: Intel Pentium Dual-Core Processor E6700, Windows 7 Home Premium, Intel G43 Express Chipset, 6144MB DDR3 Memory, Integrated Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X4500HD, Hybrid TV Tuner, 1TB SATA Hard Drive (Green Product - variable RPM), Multi-in-1 Digital Media Card Reader, High-Definition Audio Support with 5.1-channel Audio Support, 9 - USB 2.0, Keyboard and Mouse, 12.0 lbs. | 5.4 kg (system unit only), 1 Year Parts and Labor Limited Warranty with Toll-Free Tech Support, Registration/ Limited Warranty Card, Norton Internet Security Suite 2009 Trial
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