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Wednesday, June 20, 2007

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Is A New Gateway 14" Tablet PC Coming?

- Warner Crocker

Gateway295It is interesting how we find out information about possible upcoming Tablet PCs. In the TabletPCReviewSpot forums a user there points to information that is being circluated for an educational program’s required Tablet PC program. This is the info that is distributed so students and faculty can make their purchases and in this case it contains info on the Gateway 295 series that has a 14”screen. Word is that these might be available in July.

Check out the links here and here. The latter link takes you to a word document with specs.

Hat tip to GBM tipster Michael Paul.

 



6/20/2007 6:29 AM MST  

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Wednesday, June 20, 2007 2:03:35 PM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)
The dedicated graphics version has been slated to go for a retail price of $2530 according to http://www.msj.edu/academics/computing/bottomline/tabletpc/

Specifications: Gateway E295-C Tablet PC notebook computer

Processor
Intel Core 2 Duo T7300 2.0 GHz, 800 MHz FSB, 4 MB L2 Cache

Memory
2 GB 677 MHz DDR2 SDRAM (2-1024 MB memory modules)

Screen size
14" WXGA TFT Active Matrix (1280 X 768 Max resolution) w/ rotating hinge for Tablet functionality

Video
ATI Mobility Radeon X2300 w/ 64 MB Graphic RAM

Internal Hard Drive
60 GB 5400 rpm serial ATA Hard Drive

Optical Drive
8X Multi-Format Double Layer DVD Writer (DVD+R/+RW/CD-RW)

Networking cards
Intel internal 802.11 a/b/g Wireless
Intel internal 10/100/100 Ethernet

Modem
V.92 56k internal

Warranties
4-year warranty, next business day, on-site repair
Battery Replacement Service Plan (click for details)

Accidental Damage Protection - ADP
4-year protection, next business day, on-site repair

Weight
6.2 lbs with primary 8-cell battery

Extras
3 - USB 2.0 ports, 1 - Type II PC Card slot, 7-in-1 Media Reader, 1- IEEE 1394 Firewire port, VGA out, microphone port, headset port

Computer Carrying Case
Custom Backpack with Mount logo.

Software Provided
Microsoft Vista OS, MS OneNote Tablet software.
MS Office Suite 2003 w/ FrontPage w/ educational software media. (CD provided)
Symantec Anti-Virus Corporate Edition. (CD provided)

Retail Price w/6.5% tax
$2530


Mount's educational discount
$631
Savings over retail cost

Student price w/ 6.5%tax
$1899


MannieBothans
Wednesday, June 20, 2007 7:23:31 PM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)
6.2lb with 8-cell is a decent improvement
I can imagine this selling like hot potato
Too bad it's still about 2lb heavier than x61t, which is why I went for that :p
dave s
Saturday, June 23, 2007 6:33:45 AM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)
I like the idea of the huge screen - especially as my eyesight worsens with age (why I don't use a UMPC) - but that hard drive makes no sense. I suspect it's one of those one-inch drives, with slow RPM and poor performance, plus tiny capacity, which in a case THAT HUGE is mystifying. They could have put two drives in that thing if they wanted to! To limit it to 60 GB is silly, especially if they are marketing this to folks who make graphics, which are typically HUGE files at any decent print DPI setting.
Chris Paris
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