Dissimilar to its cousin, the stylishly white NV55S05u, the NV55C5IVu charterstics a hard black plastic plant, accented with an embossed wood grain style.


It looks a less tacky to us, but the over resists fingerprints good. A Gateway sign reliefe on the left side of the content and a shine black bezel frames the 15.6” screen.


The NV55C5IVu charterstics a keyboard identical to the NV55S05u's exclude in color. The black island manner keyboard discount a big right Shift button and a dedicated number pad, as good as process row buttons for all the many common process.


You will also find shortcut buttons for Gateway My Back up and Social Networks. The buttons themselves discounted just sufficient tactile reply to create typing a pleasant filled, but there's a pretty rate of flex in the layout.


Properly due to rate, Gateway shrunk the touch pad from 3.4 x 1.8 “ on the NV55S05u to a somewhat uncomfortable 3.1 x 1.7” on the NV55C5IVu.


Contempt the less in size, the touch pad stayed attractive and 2nd
finger scrolling functions smoothly. The only trouble we encountered were with pinch-to-zoom and rotate, which did not responise as consistently as we would have liked.


Gateway maintained the slot form of the NV55S05u the similar on the NV55C5IVu, placing 2nd USB 2.0 ports, a DVD burner, and a Kensington Lock slot on the right. There is another USB 2.0 port, head cell jack, micro cell jack, HDMI, Ethernet, VGA, and the strong jack on the left and a 2-in-1 digital media card reader in the front.


The integrated 1.3-megapixel HD web cam captured video with crisp complete in 1280 x 1024p, though picture look darker inside fluorescent lighting than in sunlight. voive during Skype calls was sames crisp.


Similar to the NV55S05u, the NV55C5IVu is a relatively cool Pc. before streaming Parks and Recreation on Hulu com for 15 minutes, the notebook registered 92 degrees Fahrenheit on the touch pad and middle the G and H buttons. The underside of the notebook was even cooler at 79 degrees.