Gamertell

For the gadget-filled getaway known as CES (January 7-10, 2008) in Las Vegas, NV,  Gateway unveiled its FX lineup of gaming laptops and desktop PCs and its firs gaming laptop.

For the desktop rigs, there is the FX540XT gaming desktop which includes an Intel quad-core Core 2 Extreme QX6850 processor, 1T byte of storage (dual 500 GB hard drives) by two 500G byte hard drives and dual Nvidia 8800 GTX graphics cards (768 MBThe system ain’t cheap at $3,800 it runs Microsoft’s Windows Vista Home Premium OS.

If you want a less expensive option, the FX540 starts at $999 and has only one 500 GB hard drive and one Core 2 Quad Q6600 processor. Slightly more expensive is the FX7020 at $1,099,. Available later this month (January 2008), the FX7020 has an AMD’s quad-core Phenom 9600 processor (2.3GHz), 3G bytes of RAM, a Nvidia GeForce 8800GT graphics card (512 MB), TV tuner with HD-TV support and 500 GB hard drive.

Gateway’s first gaming laptops are dubbed the P-Series starting with the $2,999 P-171XL FX gaming notebook which includes an Intel Mobile Extreme X7900 dual-core processor, an Nvidia GeForce 8800M GTS (512 MB), 3 GB RAM, a 17-inch LCD display, two 200 GB hard drives and 802.11n. The P-Series FX laptops will be available late January 2008 in several retail configurations priced from $1,349 to $1,999.

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Editor’s Note: Laptop image from Wired.