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At least the left and right mouse buttons are actual separate buttons, skipping the unfortunate recent Gateway trend of using a single, thin rocker bar in place of buttons.

Like most current laptop touch pads, it includes some basic multitouch gestures, such as two-finger scrolling, but they were hard to use, failing to register much of the time. The touch pad is undersized and made of the same material as the rest of the wrist rest, demarcated only by a faint raised line. The large keyboard is typical of 11-inch Netbooks, and certainly easier to type on, although the wide, flat, closely packed keys felt a little wobbly, especially around the center of the keyboard. Gateway is listing it for $449, but hopefully some adventurous retailer will sell it for $399, which would make it a great $100 upgrade from entry-level Netbooks. The Gateway LT32 is more reasonably priced. That system was even better, with a dual-core AMD CPU and 4GB of RAM, but it also cost nearly $600, putting it in solid mainstream laptop territory.