5 Responses for "Gateway LT2110u 10.1-Inch White Netbook – Over 8 Hours of Battery Life"

1. VooDooDoll_57 May 13th, 2010 at 12:39 am 1

   I just received my LT2108 netbook and was impressed with it from the very moment I opened the box. Sleek, light, fast, efficient and sexy to boot! Excellent tactile keyboard, amazingly crip and bright screen, good touchpad, fantastic battery life – small footprint! Good transfer speeds and responsive. Handles multi-media and video without breaking a sweat. I find myself using this netbook more-so than my regular laptop – it does everything and is more than capable. I shopped around a variety of netbooks but this one tops them all. Gateway has really hit one out of the park with this LT. I recommend it highly without hesitation.
   Rating: 5 / 5

2. Joe Michael Willis May 13th, 2010 at 1:17 am 2

   I’m using my netbook right now and it hasn’t given me any troubles thus far. It’s been excellent for my classes and is light enough to carry around. The battery works great too. It’s exactly how its described. only trouble is the windows 7 starter. its a total bummer and I’m planning on upgrading to the home edition asap. 2 thumbs up for Gateway!
   Rating: 5 / 5

3. Poetoffire May 13th, 2010 at 4:01 am 3

   I got this netbook around two and a half weeks ago, which means I can’t talk about long-term effects. But here’s what I thought about this netbook.

   I have a problem with my wrists which makes writing on paper for extended periods of time difficult and painful, but I type 90 words a minute, so I got an HP Mini 100 (chosen because the keyboard was the best I’d tried), for taking notes in school.

   The HP was good, don’t get me wrong, but the screen’s shape was clunky, it dropped my main wireless signal at school within a month, and even though it had a nice pattern on the back it wasn’t the prettiest interface out there.

   After seven months I accidentally broke the screen, and the warranty told me it wasn’t fixable and gave me back the money I’d payed for it. After trying this netbook out at a store and liking it but not its price, I eventually settled on buying this one off Amazon and getting a much cheaper online warranty.

   It arrived in a week, nicely packaged, with a power cable you had to put together. It was much lighter than the HP mini, and quite a bit more attractive-looking.

   INTERFACE

   The interface is gorgeous. Buttons are big and wide, the lights are displayed attractively, and it’s pretty darn sexy looking. There is a barely visible pattern of horizontal lines on the back of the screen, which isn’t that nice and certainly doesn’t measure up to the elegant, fun, black-and-silver bubbles of the HP mini, but neither is immediately noticeable. There’s a small silver bar reading Gateway on the lefthand side of the screen, with a tiny Gateway logo. I plan on getting a skin for the back when I can, just to make it a little prettier, but it isn’t that needed.

   This thins is a fingerprint magnet, though, and scratches easily where the HP mini chipped. You’ll have to keep dusting it off and washing off fingerprints. In two days it looked like my HP mini after I’d had it two months. So if you aren’t gentle with your netbooks (lord knows I’m not), you might want to consider investing in a screen before it gets really scarred-looking.

   The touchpad is also a little more difficult to use, and keeps zooming in, but I’m getting the hang of it.

   DISPLAY

   The screen’s very high quality, and it comes with a webcam far superior than the HP mini, or the one on my father’s Mac. This webcam isn’t extremely extremely high quality, but it’s very nice looking, and has lots of brightness/contrast/color settings to get you in your best light. The positioning of the webcam is awkward angle-wise, of course, but that’s just because it’s a netbook.

   This comes with Windows 7 Starter, which has a folder organizational system similar to a Mac. I thought I was going to hate Windows 7, because I love XP’s taskbar so much and automatically clumping programs are the bane of my existence. However, with a couple setting changes that are easy to find, it’s possible to get the same shape and type of taskbar, except the logo/home button on my Stardock theme is a little cut off, but it’s just odd-looking and not a problem at all.

   Right. Stardock.

   Big problem. All caps now: YOU CANNOT CUSTOMIZE YOUR DISPLAY. THERE APPEARS TO BE NO WAY TO APPLY THEMES OR CHANGE YOUR DESKTOP BACKGROUND.

   So I went to the web, and found out Acer made a deal with STARDOCK MY COLORS, a company that makes beyond well-designed themes for Windows Vista/Windows 7. These themes are very expensive (20 bucks each!) so Stardock wants to entice you.

   They offer up three free themes: a “go green”, environmental one, a smooth pretty blue-silver one, and an online game scarlet one. The first two come with icon design for folders, and they’re all very pretty. You install Stardock’s program, apply your choice free theme (or stick with the other one), and it gives you desktop background options including pictures from your file.

   You still can’t use other web themes than Stardock’s, but theirs aren’t half bad.

   Also, with Windows 7, there are gadgets you can put on the desktop, and ones you can download online. Those work wonderfully, and I use a to-do-list to keep track of my homework and notepad to keep track of my schedule.

   KEYBOARD

   Previously, I found it was difficult for me to type on the smaller keyboards, and selected the HP because its keyboard was so expansive. But after months of typing on the HP, I learned to adapt, and this keyboard isn’t full-sized, no, but it doesn’t have those ugly ridge things that others do and before I’d spent an hour with the netbook I could type just fine.

   If you haven’t used a netbook before or aren’t a good typer, the keyboard might take some getting used to, but it is by far a great keyboard and you could do much worse in the netbook vein.

   USB DRIVES/POWER CORDS/BATTERY

   The power cord connector is on the left side of the netbook. There are three ports for USB drives alone, which should be more than enough for the average consumer. There’s also mike and earphone jacks, and the other types of connectors you’d expect on a computer. These ports and jacks line both sides of the netbook, and there’s no ports at the back.

   The tiny-icons part of the taskbar (you know, sound, battery, updates, etc. ) also includes a USB drive button that makes removing any drive easy. If that doesn’t work, the Hard Disk Drives section of the Windows Explorer folders lets you remove with ease. No problems yet.

   The power cord is shorter than the HP mini, and if you’d like to reach across a room, get an extension. It suits my needs just fine. I wish it didn’t end with a clunky bar that extends down, which makes it hard to plug into the middle of a line of three or more power outlets, but it can plug in things both upside-down and rightside-up, so that’s a plus.

   Battery life is stellar, much better than the HP mini, and if you’re on battery power the system gives you an estimate of how long you can run it on the current power setting. I tend to really like the way Balanced looks when it’s plugged in, and want to run it with a better display quite a bit more than my HP, which I was content to just plug in when need be.

   RUN TIME

   Generally, it starts up fast, opens programs fast (Only around five seconds for Word 2007! It’s a miracle!), and surfs the Internet fast. The speed is much improved from my HP mini.

   Overall, I highly recommend this for its wonderful price, beautiful features, and functionality. Yes, if you’re editing pictures or video it is going to be slow and obnoxious, but I have another computer to do that on. To surf the Internet, use Word, watch videos on the Internet, listen to music, take notes for school. . . this is perfect.

   Highly recommended.
   Rating: 5 / 5

4. E. Taylor May 13th, 2010 at 4:03 am 4

   Even if we have a desktop computer that I need netbook to be m?s effective and to maximize my time. Tomé my netbook with me last night in a conference and the capacity to take notes from form instant?nea without having to write, and soon to transfer the input data it does not have price. I can work while I am fighting pr?ctica or pr?ctica of basketball. I am able to secure any thing during the meetings. duraci? ? n of bater?a is exceptional. Of course to buy this netbook wouuld new! & #13; Calificaci? ? n: 5/5

5. Christine Dancer May 13th, 2010 at 5:54 am 5

   This laptop is portÃtil and it has everything what my computer portÃtil it does mÃs. I attend the school and to take advantage of this light and portÃtil, with me to the school he is mà muchs fÃcil to take and I do not lose the options that my portÃtil it has mÃs. This pequeño computer portÃtil it does not disappoint to me absolutely. His rÃI ask and baterÃa lasts mà muchs that my major portÃtil it does, that is another one caracterÃstica.& #13; Calificacià ³ n: 5/5