Gateway MX8711, 17-Inch Vista Home Premium Notebook for $699
Published by Xavier February 20th, 2007 in Notebooks, Deals, Gateway Notebooks and Vista Notebooks.

A good friend of mine has been looking for a 17-inch notebook to manage his home business and called me tonight from our local Best Buy to ask me if he should buy a Gateway MX8711 for $699.99.

He ran through the specs and I was impressed by all the features Gateway crammed into this budget-minded notebook. As of right now, it’s the cheapest 17-inch widescreen Vista Home Premium notebook we’ve seen.

The MX8711 is a retail version of the Gateway NX860S, with a 1.6GHz Intel Core Duo processor, 1GB of memory and 100GB hard drive. It weighs in at 7.4 pounds and includes a dual-layer DVD burner, FireWire port, 4 USB ports, S-video port and 4-in-1 media card reader.

The MX8711 is an excellent value for a basic home entertainment or home office notebook, but for $700 you don’t get a dedicated graphics card.

Best Buy is selling this Gateway 17-incher for $150 below MSRP, or about $300 below what you can configure an NX860S for on Gateway’s online store. I told my friend to jump on this deal and he brought one home.
Best Buy’s online store is sold out, so head down to your local Best Buy if you want to take advantage of this deal.

Product page on bestbuy.com
Flash Demo of Gateway MX8711

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How can I buy this MX8711 for $699

Chris, looks like the promo is over online. I’d check and see if your local store has any left, but I doubt it.

Tiger Direct has this very same model on right now for $599.00 with free shipping in Canada.

i got this model last night at my local best buy for 599.99$ the store was sold out, but it is on order.

Bought a used Gateway MX8711 from TigerDirect.com with Vista pre-installed. One phrase, “Vista blows chunks”. Slow response and 3+minute bootup time. I just recently finished installing XP on the machine. Ran into trouble along the way. Gateway will not support XP on the Machine and had to do hunt and peck to get the SATA, video, modem, LAN, Wireless LAN and other drivers. It was a real headache, but worth it. Machine is now about 3x faster and I don’t have to fight Vista guardian (security) all the time.

i’ve had the mx8711 for one year - i’ve had one of the number keys fall off - but the major defect is that the laptop keeps shutting off on its own. had it in the repair shop twice and they can’t find anything wrong with it. gateway doesn’t want bothered since the 1 year warranty is finished. i wouldn’t recommend this model to anyone.