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hey guys what is up it's Duncan and today I'm here with a hardware review of the gateway NV 52 laptop I've been using this computer for nearly three months now and I found a lot of good things about it along with a few snags I'm going to go over the design of the laptop from the screen to the keyboard to the general feel of it to see if this is the computer for you let's get this one started first of all let's take a look at the outside of the Gateway computer while somewhat bulky on paper at 1.5 inches thick actually feels considerably smaller in person one trick the designers used was to make the bottom half of the laptop slightly recessed compared to the outside edge giving the illusion that the computer is much thinner than it really is the weight is also a bit on the heavy side at a bit below 7 pounds for the size of the computer it doesn't seem unreasonable but if you plan on carrying it around all day you might want to think about it for a bit the lid sports a nice honeycomb pattern that helps keep fingerprints from becoming too big of an issue however as with a lot of modern laptops it's a good idea to keep a cloth handy one great thing about the NV 52 are the ports as it has just about everything you might need along the left side you will find the power jet Gigabit Ethernet VGA out HDMI out two USB 2.0 ports eye microphone a headphone jack along with the card reader on the right you will find the plug for the modem 2 more USB and the dual layer DVD burner there's also draft in Wi-Fi included as well between the four USB ports Gigabit Ethernet in both VGA and HDMI out you should be covered the keyboard is of course full sized with a number pad on the right side the keys themselves are fairly flat and can occasionally be a bit difficult to type on but get used to it fairly quickly the number pad fits nicely beside the keyboard and works just fine along the top of the keyboard you'll find a row of touch sensitive buttons these do various things such as allow you to control the volume turn off the touchpad turn on and off the Wi-Fi and turn on the my backup software in addition one button is totally customizable so you can launch anything you like with it with just a single press of the button the buttons add a nice touch of class to the computer and generally what fine but unfortunately in the dark they are practically invisible the trackpad is a nice size and supports multi-touch gestures the multi-touch works fairly well allowing you to zoom in with pinch and zoom as well as to finger scrolling the trackpad is slightly recessed from the rest of the laptop which is a good thing as the feel of the trackpad and the surrounding plastic feels nearly the same something that might be a bit of a weakness is the left and right click buttons both buttons are integrated into a single narrow bar and while it looks nice it can be a bit annoying to deal with I generally try to use a mouse myself but while they aren't great they certainly aren't a deal-breaker the screen is a full fifteen point six inches and it's really quite good it features LED backlighting which allows the screen to get very bright personally I usually keep the brightness nearly all the way down it also helps the computer to save power compared to most standard LCD screens the color and contrast on the screen both are outstanding with rich vibrant color throughout it sports a 16 by 9 widescreen ratio as well which is perfect for watching movies the resolution of the screen is 1366 by 768 which is fairly standard for a screen of this size there is also an integrated webcam along the top of the screen with a built-in microphone it's certainly nothing special but it looks decent and is just fine for Skype video chat or live streaming one unexpected plus of having such a bright screen is that you can turn up the brightness and it's easily enough to illuminate you in a dark room the speakers on the NV 52 are so-so they're moderately loud enough to fill a room with sound but they get fairly tinny sounding when you really cranked it up which is pretty average for a budget laptop the hardware of the gateway NV 52 is very solid and nicely built it could easily pass off as a much more expensive laptop I haven't had so much as a little problem with it so far as build quality is concerned either the somewhat annoying mouse buttons aside the NV 52 is a very solid and I really don't have any complaints be sure to stay tuned for part two of the review where I will go over the performance and specs such as hard drive processor and more you can also check out the unboxing of the computer which will be in an annotation on the top left of the screen anyway thanks for watching