Gateway Intros Holiday Notebooks, Desktops

By Geoff Duncan October 11, 2007

Gateway—soon to be part of Acer—has announced new systems for the end-of-year holiday buying season, including two entries in its P-series line of notebooks with 17-inch screens, and a new GT-series desktop system featuring an Intel Core 2 Quad Core processor.

"Gateway’s holiday line-up is built to last and tackle the gamut of applications available today and tomorrow," said Gateway’s senior director of consumer products John Schindler, in a statement. "Notebooks with large widescreens offer power and mobility in a striking design. Engineered for bringing games and digital entertainment to life, our latest desktop PCs are outfitted with the advanced technology today’s users crave."

Gateway’s is offering two new P-series notebooks, the P-6301 and P-6822, Both feature 17-inch 1,440 by 900 pixel Ultrabright displays, an 8× Multi-Format Dual-Layer DVD±RW drive, and a 5-in-1 media card reader. The P-6301 features an Intel Pentium Dual Core T2310 processor and Intel integrated graphics, 1 GB of RAM, a 160 GB hard drive, 3 USB 2.0 ports, 802.11g Wi-Fi wireless networking, and Windows Vista Home Premium. The P-6822 steps things up a bit, going with an Intel Core 2 Duo T5250 processor, a 250 GB hard drive, a 1.3 megapixel Web cam, 802.11a/b/g Wi-Fi, and both VGA ad HDMI 1.2 output. Both systems should be available via retail channels and from Gateway directly beginning October 14, with prices starting at $799.99 and $949.99, respectively.

Next, Gateway’s new desktop series are designed to appeal to gamers, digital media enthusiasts, and performance computing fans—without necessarily breaking the bank. As an example, Gateway cites its new GT5628 desktop featuring an Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 processor, Intel’s Viiv-enabled G33 chipset, a 256MB Nvidia GeForce 8500GT graphics card, 3 GB of RAM, a 500 GB SATA II 7200 rpm hard drive, a 15-in-1 media card reader, an 18× DVD+R/RW multi-format dual layer DVD drive, copious video output (VGA, DVI-I w/HDCP, and S-Video), 7.1 audio support, 100Base-T Ethernet and WIndows Vista Home Premium—all for a retail price of $959.99. Gateway’s new desktop systems should land at retailers (and be available from Gateway itself) beginning October 14.

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