Gateway M500 Multimedia Notebook

Gateway Inc. has just released the Gateway(R) M500 notebook. This notebook is suitable for Families, students and audio/video enthusiasts. Users will definitely enjoy the new mobile PC's latest multimedia features, such as a 15.2-inch wide-panel display, high-performance sound system with sub-woofer, and one-touch audio/video keys.

Where other multimedia notebooks scrimp, the Gateway M500 splurges. The impressive high-resolution WXGA 15.2-inch wide-panel display shows data in a letterbox format -- great for viewing large word processing or spreadsheet files and even better for watching the latest movies on DVD. The crisp, bright look of movies and games on the wide-panel display is further enhanced by 32MB NVIDIA graphics.

The Gateway M500's high fidelity sound system with built-in subwoofer delivers clear, clean sound; perfect for enjoying music. The system also boasts one-touch audio/video keys to that let consumers play CDs and MP3 audio without powering on the PC.

Students, consumers and audio/video enthusiasts will appreciate the Gateway M500's many other features that make it easy to enjoy audio and video. CD and DVD media easily glide into the convenient "slot-load" CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive,like those used in car audio systems. The Gateway M500's two IEEE 1394 FireWire ports and three USB 2.0 ports ensure that consumer electronics devices such as digital cameras and camcorders can be easily connected to the notebook. And, the secure digital flash memory reader is perfect for downloading photos.