GamePC Announces First in Line of Customizable GameBooks; Keeping Gamers Happy on the Road.PALO ALTO Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 13, 1999-- GamePC has announced the first of many customizable notebooks for traveling gamers and business people alike. The new line of "GameBooks" feature Mobile Intel Pentium II The successor to the Pentium Pro from Intel. Pentium II refers to the CPU chip or the PC that uses it. Code named "Klamath," the Pentium II was a Pentium Pro with MMX multimedia instructions. and Celeron processors with ATI (ATI Technologies Inc., Markham Ontario, http://ati.amd.com) A leading manufacturer of graphics chips and display adapters. Founded in 1985 by K. Y. Ho, Benny Lau and Lee Lau, ATI chips and boards are widely used by OEMs. chipsets, allowing for users to take their favorite games and applications on the road with them, and maintain desktop-quality performance. GamePC's first GameBook, the GB1, is equipped with ATI's Rage LT Pro 3D chipset, along with 8 MB of onboard memory on an AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) A high-speed 32-bit port from Intel for attaching a display adapter to a PC. It provides a direct connection between the card and memory, and only one AGP slot is on the motherboard. bus. ATI's Rage LT chipset allows for Direct3D and OpenGL programs to run at fluid as opposed to comparable notebooks with 1, 2, 2.5, or even 4 MB of onboard video memory. The GameBook has a large 15.1" LCD display screen, which allows for resolutions up to 1024x768 in true 32-bit color. There are also options for DVD drives DVD drives come in a variety of speeds and options. The original drive (1x) transferred data at 1.35MB per second. By doubling the spindle speed (RPMs) for 2x drives, the transfer rate increased to 2.7MB/sec and has been increasing ever since. , 56k modems, removable storage drives, and 10/100 network cards to suit individual's specific needs. A key GamePC service in this new line of notebook is the same short 7-10 day lead-time that it takes to build each system, whether it is notebook or desktop. This lead-time still includes a rigorous 72-hour burn-in period 1. (testing) burn-in period - A factory soak test intended to increase the chance that components that fail early due to infant mortality will fail before the system leaves the factory. 2. where applications, games and benchmarks are tested on each system. GamePC plans to expand on their GameBook line in the future, utilizing Mobile Pentium See Pentium M. III processors along with future video chipsets from ATI and S3 to bring notebook performance up to par with their desktop equivalents. About GamePC Based in Palo Alto, GamePC custom builds high-end computer systems offering customers the largest choice of quality components of any computer manufacturer. GamePC is recognized across the industry as providing top-notch service and support combined with reliable and blazing fast computer systems. GamePC is a subsidiary of Solid Electric Inc., a distributor of SCSI connectors and cables since 1985, and has created a massive and loyal following in the "Gaming PC" market. For more information contact GamePC at 877/GAME-RIG or visit their web site at http://www.gamepc.com. Note to Editors: All trademarks are the property of their respective companies. |
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