Gateway C-140X Owners Lounge

[chriscannon]

I use mine modtly laptop too, but its always fun to use the pen. And the only time its actually "worse" to use the pen is on certain programs which have alot of right click action or drag and drop... its just a little easier with a mouse.

[cnahm]

I just got mine a couple days ago. I found mine 'used' on Salt Lake Craigslist. I say 'used' because the guy had only opened the box to confirm contents. I paid a little over half of retail!! I am so psyched to have this computer. It has the 2G duo-core of course, 1g of ram for the moment (seller is sending another 1g), 120 G hard drive, fingerprint, ATI 2300. It's so set up for a portable design station. I think this is the best option out there for designers & artists. I work at a small product company in St. Louis and another industrial designer and I have been working a couple years on Toshiba Tecra M4's. While they've been great, this is in a whole other league. It handles big files in Alias Sketchbook Pro much quicker, without hiccup. I think the graphics are much better than with the Nvidia 6200 that is in the Tecra M4.

My buddy and I are such geeks since we have always looked for chances on the weekends to go to a cafe or something and sketch on work projects, and brainstorm. The Tecra's have horrible battery life, and are slugs in the speed deptartment by comparison. He and I have now gotten our own personal tablets. He picked up a very lightly used Acer c210 travelmate... very cool tablet as well. We have both agreed all along that the introduction of tablets has done more for us as designers than even when we first learned Photoshop, or Illustrator. They are so intuitive to sketch on paired with Sketchbook Pro.

So far this Gateway rocks, and I love it.

-Cheers.

[MarkT]

Back to the heating issue, has anyone had their system get very hot and unexpectedly shut down. It happens to me occasionally. Sometimes 2 or 3 times in a row. Then the fan will come on and it will run fine. Weird, but eventually I suspect it will cause problems. I have the 3 yr warrenty so hopefully will be ok.

[cnahm]

Back to the heating issue, has anyone had their system get very hot and unexpectedly shut down. It happens to me occasionally. Sometimes 2 or 3 times in a row. Then the fan will come on and it will run fine. Weird, but eventually I suspect it will cause problems. I have the 3 yr warrenty so hopefully will be ok.

Mine actually stays relatively cool. Sounds like an issue. I have a Toshiba Tecra M4 tablet for work- have used that for going on 2 years now- and that one gets VERY warm. It actually did as you say develop into a problem... it would just freeze up in the midst of using adobe illustrator, and you'd be screwed. You'd have to restart it after having lost work (I would save religiously), and just wait for it to happen again. IT had to take it to a Toshiba tech (yes, we have a freakin' lame IT dept.), who found that the motherboard was just about gone because of the excessive heat. Cooling fan was replaced, heat sinks, and the motherboard. That did the trick pretty much, but it still runs very warm. I'm just waiting for the current motherboard to go.

Luckily my C140X is much better. I hope you get your issue resolved under warranty, and that it doesn't develop into a nightmare like that Toshiba.

Good luck!

[choopster]

I got mine last week. I need to get some information. Mine doesn't have Bluetooth and DVD writer. Can somebody post the model number of their components.

Also if you open the network card area in the back of laptop u will find two slots. One of mine is engaged with a/g network card. other is still empty. i am wondering if that one takes bluetooth card.

[QuachMD]

I got mine last week. I need to get some information. Mine doesn't have Bluetooth and DVD writer. Can somebody post the model number of their components.

Also if you open the network card area in the back of laptop u will find two slots. One of mine is engaged with a/g network card. other is still empty. i am wondering if that one takes bluetooth card.

I assume so, because BT is an optional component.

[QuachMD]

Okay, placed the order 11/21/07. EAD is 12/06/07, even with Turkey Day factored in. Nothing to do but sit and wait

[qstone]

Skulked around here for weeks. Read reviews. Changed my mind a million times (Asus RE1? Lenovo X61T?) Just ordered an S-7235C on 11/26/07. EAD is 12/11/07.

After reading the "overheating" thread I'm starting to wonder if I should have gone for the ATI graphics card, which seems to be the root of the problem...

[salsatigger]

Finally picked up my tablet after my hop across the pond over the Thanksgiving weekend. No regrets! - enjoying every moment
An additional bonus-got a free unsolicited upgrade to the T7500 (2.2 Ghz) processor. I ordered the 2.0 GHz procesor

[bobo]

I like my C-140 so much, I ordered another one! This one's a Christmas present for my wife, who's also in school. I'm interested to see how much difference is noticable between the C-140S and my C-140X. I'm also going to have to pick up some extra RAM since the new one only has 1GB.

With Vista Home Premium, how much will it use, 2GB, 3GB, 4GB?

Also, anyone know of any good deals on RAM that will work?