Gateway 2000's new 133MHz Pentium system shatters benchmark scores.NORTH SIOUX CITY Sioux City, city (1990 pop. 80,505), seat of Woodbury co., NW Iowa, at the junction of the Big Sioux and Floyd rivers with the Missouri; inc. 1857. It is a shipping, wholesale trade, and industrial center for an extensive agricultural and livestock area (including , S.D.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 14, 1995--Gateway 2000(TM) (Nasdaq: GATE) today introduced the P5-133XL, based on Intel's new 133MHz (MegaHertZ) One million cycles per second. It is used to measure the transmission speed of electronic devices, including channels, buses and the computer's internal clock. A one-megahertz clock (1 MHz) means some number of bits (16, 32, 64, etc. Pentium processor. The P5-133XL, priced at $4,399, is fully configured to provide the extra horsepower necessary to support future applications such as Native Signal Processing See NSP. , and video teleconferencing See videoconferencing. . Gateway is taking orders today for the P5-133XL and will begin shipping within ten days. "Our customer response to our 120MHz Pentium has been incredible and now, we've put even more muscle into the P5-133XL, making it the ultimate desktop PC--powerful, yet affordable," said Gateway 2000 chairman and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Ted Waitt Theodore "Ted" Waitt (born January 18, 1963) is an American billionaire who was a co-founder of Gateway, Inc. Biography Waitt was born and raised in Sioux City, Iowa and attended the University of Iowa. . Designed for performance, Gateway's 133MHz Pentium system is ten percent faster than the P5- 120XL. The P5-133XL clocked in at 204 Winstones(a) using Ziff Davis's WinBench in Gateway's engineering labs; recording the fastest Winstone score yet. "The P5-133XL yields an incredible end user experience," said Rob Cheng, vice president of desktop products. "We've teamed Intel's most powerful processor with the highest-performance components--a complete combination that provides our customers with the power and the functionality they need today with the potential to support tomorrow's exciting and demanding applications." The P5-133's 16MB of speed-boosting EDO memory and 256K pipelined burst cache Pipelined Burst Cache - Pipeline Burst Cache along with the 1.6GB enhanced IDE hard drive give it the capability to zip through the most demanding applications with ease. Gateway's 17-inch Vivitron monitor, based on Sony(R) Trinitron(R) tube technology and the ATI Mach 64 video card with 2MB VRAM See video RAM. VRAM - video random-access memory , create a bright, vivid display The P5-133XL is bundled with another industry first--the 4X (quadruple-speed) 3-CD changer Changer The name given to a clearing member that is willing to assume the opposite position of a futures contract within a larger alternative exchange, of which it also is a clearing member. --which provides both speed and convenience to take advantage of the latest business and entertainment software packages. The three-CD changer plays standard data, music and photo CDs, and features convenient, efficient switching between CDs. CDs are simply loaded into the disc cartridge, allowing users to easily switch between multiple discs, with access to 1.8GB of information. Gateway's 16-bit wavetable A group of sampled sound waves used in MIDI. See wavetable synthesis and MIDI. (hardware, music) wavetable - A type of sound generator often built in a sound card. A wavetable contains digitised samples of real instrument sounds or effect (FX) sounds. sound card and high-quality speakers are also part of the standard P5-133XL configuration. Also included is a new 28,800bps fax/modem communication center which makes internet access a breeze. The communications software includes FaxWorks and trial memberships to CompuServe, America Online and Prodigy. This fully-loaded P5-120XL configuration costs $4,399. However, Gateway 2000 offers customers the flexibility of build-to-order or pre-configured systems. Customers who want to do so can customize any Gateway 2000 PC by ordering memory upgrades and selecting from a wide variety of hard drives, video cards, monitors, fax/modems, and software applications. Microsoft Windows 95 Gateway is currently offering a Microsoft(R) Windows(R) 95 upgrade with lifetime technical support at no additional charge with the purchase of a P5-133XL or with the purchase of any system from Gateway. For people who already own a Gateway PC, the company is offering Windows 95 upgrade programs that also include lifetime support at no additional charge. The P5-133XL comes preloaded with MS-DOS MS-DOS in full Microsoft Disk Operating System Operating system for personal computers. MS-DOS was based on DOS, developed in 1980 by Seattle Computer Products. Microsoft Corp. bought the rights to DOS in 1981, and released MS-DOS with IBM's PC that year. 6.22, Windows for Workgroups A version of Windows 3.1 introduced in 1992 that added peer-to-peer networking. See Windows. (operating system) Windows for Workgroups - (WFW, WFWG) A version of Windows 3.1 which works with a network. Although stand-alone 3. 3.11 and MS Office Professional 4.3. Windows 95 upgrades will ship as soon as the new operating system becomes available. Customer Support Gateway 2000's newly enhanced technical support team offers award-winning responsiveness. All Gateway 2000 desktop and portable systems come with lifetime toll-free technical support and a 30-day money-back guarantee. Desktop systems carry a three-year parts warranty and portables have a one-year parts warranty. All systems include membership to the Gateway 2000 electronic bulletin board system. Technical support and customer service are also available through a FaxBack service, an automated order inquiry telephone system, an interactive voice-response system and forums on the most popular electronic services, such as CompuServe, America OnLine, GEnie and Prodigy. On-site service is provided at no additional charge during the first year if Gateway technicians determine it is necessary. About Gateway 2000 Gateway 2000, a Fortune 500 company founded in 1985, currently sells more PC-compatible systems through the direct market channel in the United States than any other PC manufacturer. Gateway 2000 is also the leading U.S. market supplier of systems based on Intel's leading-edge Pentium microprocessor. The company's 1994 sales were $2.7 billion. Gateway 2000 is listed on the Nasdaq market as GATE. Gateway 2000 and Vivitron are registered trademarks and Family PC is a trademark of Gateway 2000, Inc. Pentium is a registered trademark of Intel Corp. Microsoft is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corp. Other trademarks are the property of their respective companies. (a) Winstone is a trademark of Ziff-Davis Publishing Co., L.P. Tests were performed without independent verification by Ziff-Davis, and all products used in the test were shipping versions available to the general public. The Gateway 2000 P5-120XL was tested in the following configuration: 120MHz Pentium processor, 16MB EDO RAM, 256K pipelined burst cache, 1.6GB Western Digital IDE hard drive, 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. GX video card with 2MB VRAM with Macx.drv version 3.10 and a refresh rate of 72Hz. MS-DOS 6.22 and Microsoft Windows for Workgroups 3.11, video resolution and color depth of 640 x 480 x 256 colors. CONTACT: Michelle Gjerde, 605/232-2253 Kris Wilen, 605/232-2702 Steve Sturgeon sturgeon, primitive fish of the northern regions of Europe, Asia, and North America. Unlike evolutionarily advanced fishes, it has a fine-grained hide, with very reduced scalation, a mostly cartilaginous skeleton, upturned tail fins, and a mouth set well back on the , 605/232-2582 Craig Nyreen, 605/232-2728 |
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