The 15.6-inch Gateway Ultra Slim Notebook features a 1080p screen that brings a crystal-clear picture for any and all of your tasks. AMD Ryzen Mobile Processors deliver premium performance for productivity, entertainment, gaming, and content creation in thin and light laptops. Tuned by THX audio products enable listeners to get the best audio quality possible by providing custom fidelity improvements, balanced reproduction, and optimal frequency response. It is the ideal way to get the best audio for on-the-go entertainment.
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If you don't see your Model listed which was the case for me Click on Instant Chat. I got a live human being. I told her my Model Number was GWTN156-5BL and she said that the drivers are the same as GWTN156-2. I also had to give her my serial number.
Lastly I asked about the SSD slots, and here's the response I got.
Main slot is PCIe/SATA with a max drive of 256
Secondary slot is SATA with a max drive of 256
For a max total of 512
Please post your, if you were able to stuff a bigger drive into either slot.
Good Luck
EG
Last Updated by ElGato01 on 06-29-2022 at 02:20 PM
The 15.6-inch Gateway Ultra Slim Notebook features a 1080p screen that brings a crystal-clear picture for any and all of your tasks. AMD Ryzen Mobile Processors deliver premium performance for productivity, entertainment, gaming, and content creation in thin and light laptops. Tuned by THX audio products enable listeners to get the best audio quality possible by providing custom fidelity improvements, balanced reproduction, and optimal frequency response. It is the ideal way to get the best audio for on-the-go entertainment.
Model: Gateway 15.6" FHD Ultra Slim Notebook, AMD Ryzen™ 5 3450U, 16GB RAM, 256GB SSD, Tuned by THX™ Audio, Fingerprint Scanner, 1MP Webcam, HDMI, Cortana, Windows 10 Home, Black
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I've had the blue one for about a month or so and I like it very much. The track pad is garbage, otherwise I don't have much to complain about. Oh, the power button is where "delete" goes so expect to punk yourself a few times.
I like the feel of it, the metal feeling lid helps it not feel super cheap.
I use it for prepping 3d models for my printer, and it's very good at what I ask it to do.
BTW it does charge via USB c despite it saying data only.
Anyone know how to completely remove Norton from this?
I've run Norton's removal tool multiple times but parts remain.
The software suite still shows with the programs in the start screen, but is not when I go to Remove Programs. Nothing Norton is listed under remove programs, but something is still running hidden somewhere. Whenever windows update runs Norton Downloader tries to reinstall Norton. Despite obviously running, Norton Downloader does not show up anywhere I can find to uninstall it.
Right Clicking on the software suite gives the option to uninstall in the popup menu, but that just takes you to the remove programs screen, where nothing Norton is listed.
SMT is in AMD too. How about a sane discussion about SMT and security[thesai.org] before you go axing performance for marginal security increases for home users. Do your part to fight superstition in IT.
From the article you referenced
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If looking at the geometric mean for these various mitigation-sensitive benchmarks, the default mitigations on the Core i9 9900K amounted to a 28% hit while the Ryzen 7 2700X saw a 5% hit with its default Spectre mitigations and the new Ryzen 7 3700X came in at 6% and the Ryzen 9 3900X at just over 5%.
Even when AMD has bugs, the same issue is much bigger for Intel.
From my vantage point AMD is a better value. The GPU part of the equation you already agreed on as better value for AMD. For the CPU part the price should be more than enough reason to pass on Intel version of this laptop $429.00 vs. $349.00 AMD. Event if the price was the same, I would still go with the AMD due to GPU performance and Intel architecture issues affecting performance more so than AMD in all cases I have seen.
But feel free to have the last word on why we should buy Intel in this case .
Last edited by gandalftw March 21, 2021 at 07:50 PM.
Anyone know how to completely remove Norton from this?
I've run Norton's removal tool multiple times but parts remain.
The software suite still shows with the programs in the start screen, but is not when I go to Remove Programs. Nothing Norton is listed under remove programs, but something is still running hidden somewhere. Whenever windows update runs Norton Downloader tries to reinstall Norton. Despite obviously running, Norton Downloader does not show up anywhere I can find to uninstall it.
Right Clicking on the software suite gives the option to uninstall in the popup menu, but that just takes you to the remove programs screen, where nothing Norton is listed.
How does Linux run on this? I've considered getting one of the Gateways for use with PopOS. Have you encountered any compatibility issues along the way?
Runs great with current kernels but the 5.8.0 that comes with ubuntu 20.10 doesn't support the wifi or audio. 5.11.8 seems to be fine.
Thanks for the response, but I looked through the reddit and it doesn't seem to apply to Norton. It is about removing Microsoft built in programs. The only thing it says about other bloatware is to use add/remove programs, and that doesn't work here.
I got this one in December and have been using it as my primary work computer for about a month. So far it works great - supports 2 external monitors and my bad habit of always having 20-30 tabs open. Both the usb c and hdmi connections feel a little loose and it did get stuck in a self repair mode after the latest update but I was able to get it back up and running relatively easily.
I pulled the trigger on this one. I will have it Tuesday. The kids needed something as their ancient desktop died.
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I like the feel of it, the metal feeling lid helps it not feel super cheap.
I use it for prepping 3d models for my printer, and it's very good at what I ask it to do.
BTW it does charge via USB c despite it saying data only.
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I've run Norton's removal tool multiple times but parts remain.
The software suite still shows with the programs in the start screen, but is not when I go to Remove Programs. Nothing Norton is listed under remove programs, but something is still running hidden somewhere. Whenever windows update runs Norton Downloader tries to reinstall Norton. Despite obviously running, Norton Downloader does not show up anywhere I can find to uninstall it.
Right Clicking on the software suite gives the option to uninstall in the popup menu, but that just takes you to the remove programs screen, where nothing Norton is listed.
SMT is in AMD too. How about a sane discussion about SMT and security [thesai.org] before you go axing performance for marginal security increases for home users. Do your part to fight superstition in IT.
From my vantage point AMD is a better value. The GPU part of the equation you already agreed on as better value for AMD. For the CPU part the price should be more than enough reason to pass on Intel version of this laptop $429.00 vs. $349.00 AMD. Event if the price was the same, I would still go with the AMD due to GPU performance and Intel architecture issues affecting performance more so than AMD in all cases I have seen.
But feel free to have the last word on why we should buy Intel in this case
I've run Norton's removal tool multiple times but parts remain.
The software suite still shows with the programs in the start screen, but is not when I go to Remove Programs. Nothing Norton is listed under remove programs, but something is still running hidden somewhere. Whenever windows update runs Norton Downloader tries to reinstall Norton. Despite obviously running, Norton Downloader does not show up anywhere I can find to uninstall it.
Right Clicking on the software suite gives the option to uninstall in the popup menu, but that just takes you to the remove programs screen, where nothing Norton is listed.
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Memory is soldered, there's a second m2 slot that you can access without removing the entire back.
Any questions on the hardware side I can likely answer, I put linux on mine already so I can't answer anything about how it works in windows.
Any findings folks?
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