Gateway's 17-inch M680 laptop

Gateway introduced a new 17-inch laptop today, the M680. The styling is nothing to get too excited about, but the M680, which weighs 7.7 pounds and is just 1.24 inches thick, is pretty light and thin for a 17-inch laptop (or at least one that isn't also a PowerBook). Comes in two versions, the budget-priced M680S and the top of the line M680XL, both of which have 1680 x 1050 resolution displays:

• The M680S has a 1.6GHz Pentium M processor, 512MB of DDR2 RAM, a 40GB hard drive, DVD/CD-RW combination drive, built-in 801.11b/g WiFi, and an ATI Mobility RADEON x700 graphics card with 64MB of video RAM. Retail price: $1,399.99.

• The M680XL sports a 2.13GHz Pentium M processor, 512MB of DDR2 RAM, a 60GB hard drive, an 8x DVD+/-RW drive, built-in 802.11a/b/g WiFi, and an ATI Mobility RADEON x700 PCI Express graphics card with 128MB of video RAM. Retail price: $2,864.99 (yeah, it's fully-loaded, but damn, that's steep).

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