New in Gateway’s line of “retail-model” PCs, the Gateway GT5662 ($750 direct) is available online and in big-box stores as a nonconfigurable, take-it-out-of-the-box-and-use-it PC. It’s part of the growing category of midrange PCs that used to run around $1,500 four or five years ago and now have dropped to sub-$800 price levels. Yet you still get one of the latest processors, a large hard drive, and a discrete graphics card. This is a good step up for the user whose needs are expanding but who still wants a reasonably priced system.

You can find the GT5662 at stores like Circuit City and online at Newegg.com and J&R. Best Buy also carries it, though only in some locations. The GT5662 is more of a one-size-fits-all affair, and I’m fine with that. It fulfills both the convenience and impulse buy for those who don’t want to spend over an hour of their lives trying to figure out what components they need, as they would at a configuration kiosk in a store or on the manufacturer’s Web site.

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