vista64You knew it was coming. Gateway, to our knowledge, has become the first large vendor to ship most of its retail PCs with the 64-bit version of Home Premium. The refreshed product line also brings back an quad-core processor, which had been dumped by the company in the previous product cycle.

When we wrote about Gateway’s spring retail PCs back in January of this year, it was quite obvious that, at least for that product cycle, Gateway had thrown out ’s Core 2 Quad Q6600 quad-core processor in favor of an Phenom X4 chip. Back then, company representatives assured us that an quad-core would return soon. It took some time (four months), but an chip is back, but only for the pricey “FX” version. Read the rest of this entry »