Gateway has started shipping the TP Series A60, the company’s first tablet. On tap on this one: a 10.1-inch, a 1GHz NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor, and 1GB of RAM. Sound familiar? That’s because Gateway’s new tablet isn’t really that “new.” It’s a rebranded version of the Acer Iconia Tab A500 (Acer owns Gateway, by the way).
Gateway just officially announced their new ID series, a line of aluminum-clad thin-and-light notebooks that stirred up a little buzz when they were showed off during Computex with glowing multitouch trackpads. Again, a glowing trackpad shouldn’t be a major factor when you’re buying a notebook, but it looks nice if you’re into that. We would have loved it if it had a backlit keyboard instead, but hey, this is at least unique.
Yeah, you read that right. The touchpads on these new notebooks from Gateway light up when you touch ‘em. We see the promise of having backlit keyboards (and as insomniacs wit fingers that are literally glued to our laptop keyboards, we strongly believe that all notebooks should come with this feature), but glowing touchpads? It’s cute and all, but is that really necessary?
Gateway’s NV Series entertainment notebooks just got refreshed with new specs, features and design to keep up with the times, but the best part is that they managed to keep the price low. The update includes a matte texture design on the lid and inner panels that should eliminate fingerprint smudges, plus better processor options that includes Intel’s Core i3 and i5 processors and Radeon graphics chips and AMD’s Athlon and Turion processors for the budget models.
Gateway goes with the flow by updating their new LT21 netbooks with Pine Trail Atom processors. First, the basics: they’re standard-sized, with 10.1-inch screens, running on Intel’s N450 Atom processor, “A full 1GB of memory” (according to the product page), and a hard drive that starts out at 160GB.
