Gateway DX210
Gateway DX210
Matt Elliott Senior Editor
Matt Elliott is a senior editor at CNET with a focus on laptops and streaming services. Matt has more than 20 years of experience testing and reviewing laptops. He has worked for CNET in New York and San Francisco and now lives in New Hampshire. When he's not writing about laptops, Matt likes to play and watch sports. He loves to play tennis and hates the number of streaming services he has to subscribe to in order to watch the various sports he wants to watch.
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Gateway DX210 series
Gateway's budget DX210 series features mainstream Intel Pentium 4 processors and comes in two preconfigured models, each of which offers a slight degree of customization. The Gateway DX210S starts at $500 and includes a Pentium 4 524 processor, 512MB of memory, an 80GB hard drive, and integrated ATI Xpress 200 graphics. For $790, the DX210X model features a Pentium 4 631 processor and twice the memory and hard drive capacity of the DX210S, plus a 17-inch LCD. Both models feature an attractive midtower case with a BTX design for quiet operation. Though Windows XP Home is the default operating system for each model, you can upgrade to the Media Center OS and add a TV tuner card. Both models are competitively priced and address two of our chief concerns with the DX200 we reviewed in December 2005: it used an outdated chipset and offered few opportunities for expansion. Though the DX210 series' ATI Xpress 200 chipset isn't cutting-edge, it's superior to the DX200's Intel 915G chipset, and with an x16 PCI Express slot, it's also upgradable.
Gateway's budget DX210 series features mainstream Intel Pentium 4 processors and comes in two preconfigured models, each of which offers a slight degree of customization. The Gateway DX210S starts at $500 and includes a Pentium 4 524 processor, 512MB of memory, an 80GB hard drive, and integrated ATI Xpress 200 graphics. For $790, the DX210X model features a Pentium 4 631 processor and twice the memory and hard drive capacity of the DX210S, plus a 17-inch LCD. Both models feature an attractive midtower case with a BTX design for quiet operation. Though Windows XP Home is the default operating system for each model, you can upgrade to the Media Center OS and add a TV tuner card. Both models are competitively priced and address two of our chief concerns with the DX200 we reviewed in December 2005: it used an outdated chipset and offered few opportunities for expansion. Though the DX210 series' ATI Xpress 200 chipset isn't cutting-edge, it's superior to the DX200's Intel 915G chipset, and with an x16 PCI Express slot, it's also upgradable.