Gateway EC14D Notebook

The Gateway EC14D Notebook is a special little laptop, as it is one of the few of its kind, to have a DVD drive built in. This notebook sports an 11.6″ screen, which makes it an ultra-portable.

A high definition resolution of 1366 x 768 pixels is offered. The Intel Pentium dual core ULV processor with a frequency of 1.4GHz has been employed for handling processing. Graphics is taken care of by the Intel GMA 4500HD GPU. The RAM housed within is a 4GB one, which can be enhanced to 8GB for better performance. A 320GB hard drive comes built within. The Windows 7 OS drives this notebook.

WiFi and wired Ethernet connectivity are both supported for hooking onto the internet. There are also 3 USB ports, an HDMI port, a web camera and a multi-format media card reader packed in this workstation. A 6-cell battery is supposed to be shipping in this device and is reckoned to offer 8 hours of runtime. The price of this device for the US market is $629, which is quite a reasonable one. A UK release hasn’t been heard of yet.

The Gateway EC14D 11.6″ Netbook was on display at this year’s CES, held in Las Vegas recently. Scott Stein from Cnet has pointed out to a very interesting fact in his article on this notebook. Though a sleek laptop does look very attractive, people still put value before aesthetics. Hence a laptop with an integrated DVD drive is what people would prefer buying even if it is a little bulkier than a slim laptop which lacks it.