Gateway still has the habit of cluttering up the desktop. In this case you have links for eBay, Netflix, Gateway games, the Times Reader, Nook, Norton, and a few others. How you feel about this will relate directly to how useful you find those apps, however, they do tend to spoil the minimalist good looks of the machine itself.

In the end, the ID47HO2, by virtue of its good looks and feel, exceeds the sum of its parts. The numbers, while good, don't tell the whole story--you must see it and use it to appreciate it.