{"id":35346,"date":"2025-04-13T13:39:27","date_gmt":"2025-04-13T17:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/?p=35346"},"modified":"2025-04-13T13:39:30","modified_gmt":"2025-04-13T17:39:30","slug":"digital-archaeology-gateway-nv57h","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2025\/04\/13\/digital-archaeology-gateway-nv57h\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Archaeology: Gateway NV57H"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=35347\" class=\"attachment wp-att-35347 keychainify-checked\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/1_2ff35fdb5d57e4b1927e15b4c362bdec-1024x883.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"802\" height=\"692\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-35347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/1_2ff35fdb5d57e4b1927e15b4c362bdec-1024x883.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/1_2ff35fdb5d57e4b1927e15b4c362bdec-300x259.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/1_2ff35fdb5d57e4b1927e15b4c362bdec-768x662.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/1_2ff35fdb5d57e4b1927e15b4c362bdec-139x120.jpg 139w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/1_2ff35fdb5d57e4b1927e15b4c362bdec.jpg 1253w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 802px) 100vw, 802px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Gateway NV57H is an i3-2310M based laptop. As such, it certainly isn&#8217;t &#8220;vintage&#8221; and it would be stretching things quite a bit to even call it &#8220;retro&#8221;. It&#8217;s really just kind of old. It dates back to circa 2012. This is well after Acer bought them and was basically using the name to rebadge Acer&#8217;s low to mid-range hardware.<\/p>\n<p>The model number, like most, is pretty indecipherable. The hardware includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>CPU: Intel i3-2310M @ 2.1 GHz<\/li>\n<li>RAM: 4 GB DDR3<\/li>\n<li>Video: Intel<\/li>\n<li>Hard Drive: 300 GB<\/li>\n<li>Screen: 1366&#215;768<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more complete hardware specs, check out the output from <a href=\"\/DigitalArchaeology\/da_Gateway-NV57H\/hardinfo_report.html\" class=\"keychainify-checked\">HardInfo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/top.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"808\" height=\"639\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/top.png 808w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/top-300x237.png 300w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/top-768x607.png 768w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/top-152x120.png 152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 808px) 100vw, 808px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I was a huge fan of Gateway back in the day. Before they were bough by Acer. Before they bought E-Machines. Before then, they made some pretty good hardware. After that, it was pretty generic stuff. Not necessarily bad for what you were paying but nothing that really stood out from the crowd either. Today, you can still buy Gateway laptops in Wal-Mart. But again, these are just rebadged machines from other makers. Gateway hasn&#8217;t made anything in a long time.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/topk1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"654\" height=\"621\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/topk1.png 654w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/topk1-300x285.png 300w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/topk1-126x120.png 126w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 654px) 100vw, 654px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/topk2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"664\" height=\"479\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/topk2.png 664w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/topk2-300x216.png 300w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/topk2-166x120.png 166w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 664px) 100vw, 664px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I assume this laptop was designed for the budget minded consumer. It has no discrete GPU and otherwise pretty average\/lowish-end stats for the time. If you were buying this machine it was because it was the best deal at the time or because you liked how it looked (I do kind of like the red color). It certainly wasn&#8217;t for the high-end specs or unique features.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/frontrear.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"665\" height=\"562\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/frontrear.png 665w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/frontrear-300x254.png 300w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/frontrear-142x120.png 142w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 665px) 100vw, 665px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s nothing wrong with a budget laptop if it meets your needs. My biggest problem with them is that cheap laptops tend to have cheap screens. For instance, this one only has a resolution of 1366&#215;768. For a machine you are going to use a lot, a higher resolution screen is a huge benefit, even when this one was made.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/left.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"663\" height=\"561\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/left.png 663w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/left-300x254.png 300w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/left-142x120.png 142w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 663px) 100vw, 663px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/left2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"662\" height=\"208\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/left2.png 662w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/left2-300x94.png 300w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/left2-382x120.png 382w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 662px) 100vw, 662px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Obviously, this laptop isn&#8217;t useful for gaming. The 4 GB of RAM is enough for Windows 7 (which it shipped with), Windows 8, or Windows 10 if you are a bit of a masochist. It runs Linux fairly well (I have it running Xubuntu currently). Also, you should be able to upgrade it to 8 GB of RAM. This would be beneficial for any 64-bit OS and it would help Window 10 significantly. The other major upgrade you could do is to replace the hard drive with an SSD. With those two upgrades it would be quite useable in a modern environment (with the exception that you can&#8217;t install Windows 11).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/right.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"665\" height=\"395\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/right.png 665w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/right-300x178.png 300w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/right-202x120.png 202w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 665px) 100vw, 665px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/right2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"661\" height=\"447\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/right2.png 661w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/right2-300x203.png 300w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/right2-177x120.png 177w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 661px) 100vw, 661px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One problem I&#8217;ve notice with my particular machine is that the CPU throttles under heavy load. This could either be because of poor thermal design or because the heatsink is clogged with dust on the back side. I haven&#8217;t taken it apart yet to check&#8230;looks like it might be a pain to disassemble.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bottom.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"657\" height=\"618\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bottom.png 657w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bottom-300x282.png 300w, https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bottom-128x120.png 128w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 657px) 100vw, 657px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Despite the throttling, I have this laptop running BOINC like I do with all of the hardware I use. It can do work for pretty much any project and so far it has returned work units for <a href = \"https:\/\/einsteinathome.org\/host\/13185786\">Einstein@home<\/a>, <a href = \"https:\/\/milkyway.cs.rpi.edu\/milkyway\/show_host_detail.php?hostid=1028354\">MilkyWay@home<\/a>, <a href = \"https:\/\/asteroidsathome.net\/boinc\/show_host_detail.php?hostid=774650\">Asteroids@home<\/a> and World Community Grid. You can see how it is doing overall at <a href = \"https:\/\/stats.free-dc.org\/stats.php?page=hostbycpid&#038;cpid=130890cfec52e823a231b6f5c7e141d2\">FreeDC<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gateway NV57H is an i3-2310M based laptop. As such, it certainly isn&#8217;t &#8220;vintage&#8221; and it would be stretching things quite a bit to even call it &#8220;retro&#8221;. It&#8217;s really just kind of old. It dates back to circa 2012. This is well after Acer bought them and was basically using the name to rebadge Acer&#8217;s low to mid-range hardware. The model number, like most, is pretty indecipherable. The hardware includes: CPU: Intel i3-2310M @ 2.1 GHz RAM: 4 GB DDR3 Video: Intel Hard Drive: 300 GB Screen: 1366&#215;768 For more complete hardware specs, check out the output from HardInfo. I was a huge fan of Gateway back in the day. Before they were bough by Acer. Before they bought E-Machines. Before then, they made some pretty good hardware. After that, it was pretty generic stuff. Not necessarily bad for what you were paying but nothing that really stood out from the crowd either. Today, you can still buy Gateway laptops in Wal-Mart. But again, these are just rebadged machines from other makers. Gateway hasn&#8217;t made anything in a long time. I assume this laptop was designed for the budget minded consumer. It has no discrete GPU and otherwise pretty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35347,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[486,2042,3981,4153,4152,2362],"class_list":["post-35346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-computer-arcana","category-dos","tag-computers","tag-digital-archaeology","tag-gateway","tag-i3-2310m","tag-nv57h","tag-retrocomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35357,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35346\/revisions\/35357"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}