Next-Generation Gateway Today

Jason K. Krause

Gateway's new 200-MHz Pentium-based P5-200XL provides more than just the latest Intel processor for power users and early adopters. The P5-200XL also introduces several new technologies that you'll be seeing more of over the next year, including the emerging SDRAM, a standard CD-ROM recorder, and the latest Intel Triton (430VX) chip set. The P5-200XL also includes 512 KB of pipelined burst SRAM cache memory, an eight-speed CD-ROM reader, a 2.5-GB Western Digital EIDE hard drive, a 2-MB Matrox Millennium graphics accelerator, a 17-inch Vivitron monitor (15.9 inches viewable), a 28.8-Kbps Telepath fax modem, an Ensoniq 16-bit wave-table sound card, and Altec ACS-400 speakers.

The P5-200XL is Gateway's first system to include SDRAM (expandable to 64 MB of RAM). SD RAM will be a standard feature in many systems by 1997, because it provides better performance than EDO RAM at the higher clock speeds of future processors. Thanks to the 64-bit DIMM, you can upgrade memory with just a single module, compared to the two 32-bit-wide memory modules you would have to buy if the P5-200XL used SIMMs. The bundled Panasonic CD-ROM recorder (double-speed write/qu ad-speed read) includes Corel's CD Creator software. The now-standard CD-ROM recorder lets you burn your own CDs to use as a storage medium or to foster information exchange among workgroups. Without the CD-ROM, the system costs $599 less.

The results of benchmark tests demonstrate that this system offers an extensive performance advantage over past systems. The P5-200XL, with 16 MB of RAM and the above configuration, scored an overall rating of 149 in Bapco's brand-new SysMark/32 for Win 95 and NT applications benchmarks, compared to 93 for a 90-MHz Dell.

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Product Information

Gateway P5-200XL..................$3899

Gateway 2000, Inc.
North Sioux City, SD
Phone:    (800) 523-2000 or (605) 232-2000
Fax:      (605) 232-2023
Internet: 
http://www.gw2k.com

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