Dudical! For that price you could have gotten a powermac and be running unix with a be-A-utiful UI! Anyways, your new laptop looks very nice. Congratulations.

XP ain't that bad as a UI - not that great either, but not bad. I thought about the powerbooks, but it really came down to the fact that I'm not an OS/X user and I'm not a *nix user. I just want to read my email on the road and have lots of a battery power that allows me to write it without having to carry around a 20 pound beast.
I think this gets me there at a fair price.

You and I have way different needs. It's not powerful enough, the screen is too small, there's no wifi built in, it doesn't upgrade to enough memory or hard drive space and the battery isn't hot swappable.
Then again, it's a third the price of the one I've got my eyes on.
Truely, YMMV. :-)

> YMMV ;-)
Indeed it does - I don't need a desktop replacement, I just need something to help me keep in touch. The fact that this thing is only 4ish pounds is the biggest plus on long trips, so is the 9 hour battery life that I get. :)
Not to mention that buying any laptop worth $6500 CAD would probably definitely get me fired ;)

I'm glad you learned something about Intel processors. I knew all that schooling would come in useful some day ;).
So after all that you decided to go with the Pentium-M instead of the Centrino or a G4! Not what I would have chosen of course, but it does look like a great laptop. Let me know how it works out!

> So after all that you decided to go with the Pentium-M instead of the Centrino or a G4!
It has a big Centrino sticker on it so I'm not sure why the website Gateway shows it as a Pentium-M....(on a page that also sports the Centrino badging...)