Features and Design

Without a doubt, the main and most exciting feature of the Gateway One is the newly designed, super thin all-in-one body. The computer looks like a glossy obsidian monolith from the front. The LCD panel is inset by about 1/8”, but the clear Plexiglas face makes the screen look flush against the shiny surface. The computer is only a few inches thick, just like an LCD TV. It has no extraneous feet or risers - it just rests nicely flat against your work space. The overall dimensions of the Gateway One: 17.4” tall, 18” wide and 1.5” thick at the top and about 4” thick at the base. The body weighs about 22 lbs.

The Gateway One model GZ7220 comes with a super-speedy Intel Core 2 Duo T7250 processor up to 2.0GHz with an 800MHz bus. Our test model has the 2.0GHz processor and 3GB PC2-5300 DDR2 RAM. The Gateway One can be upgraded to 4GB RAM, which makes it absolutely scream.

While configurations may vary, the GZ7220 model comes with a 256MB ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600XT video card with discreet video RAM. This is a great option for a compact, all-in-one system. The only downside however, is the lack of an external video port.

While the base configurations of the Gateway One include one 7200 RPM SATA II hard drive, the system can be upgraded to two hard drives, effectively doubling your storage space or allowing for software RAID configurations.

The wireless keyboard and wireless mouse (aka “River Rock Wireless Optical 2-Button Touch-Wheel”) are new and improved. The keys on the keyboard are standard matte black just like all other keys, however the frame and face of the keyboard is overlaid with a clear Plexiglas fascia. This makes the keyboard a near twin to the Gateway One body. The mouse, on the other hand, does not have any Plexiglas; but it sports a new design as well. The scroll mouse and split right/left mouse buttons are gone. In their place is a single round button that intelligently knows whether you’re right-clicking, left-clicking or scrolling up and down. Gateway did very well with this design; however it will probably get a thumbs-down from gamers, Photoshop users and others who rely on very specific mouse control.

The Gateway One has a minimal number of connections and ports on its body. The gigabit Ethernet port, for example, has been removed from the body and placed on the power brick. While the body has three USB 2.0 ports on the left side, there are four more USB 2.0 ports on the power brick. According to Gateway, this is intended to give the Gateway One computer a cleaner, refined look - fewer rogue cables sprouting forth from the computer equals a more aesthetic work space.

On the left side of the computer there are, as mentioned above, three USB 2.0 ports. There’s also a FireWire 400 port (full sized 6-pin, not the rinky-dink 4-port connections of yore), a 5-in-1 media card reader (SD, MMC, XD, MS and MS Pro), a headphone/speaker jack and an analog input. The right side of the Gateway One is very minimalist - just a slot loading DVD drive, much like the rival iMac computer. The DVD drive is an 8X SuperMulti Drive that will burn CDs, DVDs and dual-layer DVDs.

The Gateway One w/ keyboard and remote