The Gateway M305 has a forty-gigabyte hard disc, an Intel Celeron two point two gigahertz processor, two hundred and fifty six megabytes of memory, and a 24x CD-RW disc drive. It has a fifteen-inch screen; making it a good system for viewing photographs, but the lack of a DVD drive would be measured a downside. Another serious downside to believe is the Gateway M305's lack of wireless net, which is a necessity among current laptop personal computers. The Gateway M305 has a v.92 56Kbps modem and an either net port. If you are comfy with plugging your laptop personal computer into the wall for Internet, good, but most laptop personal computer users these days have full-grown tired of having to utilize lots of cords.

If you are looking for a very essential computer that doesn't require to be particularly fast and run the most current programs, but just for very basic text processing tasks and infrequent low speed internet browsing, the Gateway M305 may symbolize a good deal. However, I had a hard time judgment the Gateway M305 online, even through online sale sites. The only things that I could immediately find on internet auction websites such as eBay and Froogle were gears such as keyboard, LCD screens, backup batteries and power supplies compatible with the Gateway M305, so if you are involved in buying the actual laptop personal computer and not just in finding components to expand the life of your obtainable one, you may be out of luck depending on advertising forces.

All in all, if you are looking for a dependable older laptop computer, I would suggest checking out another model with superior distribution, as you are likely to be in the marketplace for add on parts and upgrades and that may be a distress when it is hard enough to essentially find the system for sale online.