Gateway Solo PCs for $999 hit the street
Gateway Solo PCs for $999 hit the street
New low- and high-end Solo notebook PCs available today from Gateway Inc. have moved up from PC Card networking to integrated 802.11b Wireless Ethernet and Bluetooth connectivity.
The Solo 1200 starts at $999 with an 800-MHz Celeron processor, 128M of RAM, a 10G hard drive, CD-ROM and floppy drives, a 12.1-inch LCD and Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition. For $200 more, a Wireless Ethernet option will provide 90 days of wireless service later, plus 64M of additional RAM. A $15 certificate buys a later upgrade to forthcoming Windows XP.
The ultralight 3-pound, $2,199 Solo 3450 has a multimedia docking station incorporating CD-ROM and floppy drives. The drives can be upgraded to CD-RW and DVD drives. The operating system is Windows 2000, which is not upgradeable to XP.
Contact Gateway at 800-846-2106.
'S.M. Menke