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Gateway 8510GZ NotebookGateway today announced the Gateway 8510GZ Notebook.

Designed for families, students and small business professionals, the Gateway 8510GZ is ideal for productivity, entertainment, studies and work. In addition to its visually stunning 17-inch Cinematic Widescreen WXGA display.

"The Gateway 8510GZ's 17-inch Cinematic Widescreen display will be a head-turner in retail," said Chad McDonald, Gateway's director of mobile products. "And when performance-oriented customers take a closer look, they'll see the product provides the ideal combination of features and technology at a very competitive price. In fact, the entire new line illustrates our dedication to continuing to deliver the best values in retail."

In addition to the 17-inch widescreen Gateway 8510GZ, the new line of Gateway notebooks will impress back-to-school shoppers. Delivering desktop-class performance and graphics, the Gateway 7510GX notebook is powered with an AMD 64-bit processor and ATI Mobility(TM) Radeon(R) X600 graphics, making it perfect for gamers and power users.

Gateway 8510GZ: Dramatic Display, Ultimate Mobile Performance

Gateway's first notebook with a 17-inch Cinematic Widescreen display to be offered at major retailers, the new Gateway 8510GZ provides a compelling combination of features for performance-minded mobile PC users. The notebook's vibrant display complements its powerful Intel(R) Centrino(R) Mobile Technology(1), dedicated ATI Mobility(TM) Radeon(R) X700 PCI Express graphics and other advanced features to result in an unsurpassed mobile computing experience.

The 17-inch Cinematic Widescreen display delivers 25 percent more pixels than an XGA display and showcases entertainment, games and DVD movies with astonishing clarity. Small business users will appreciate that it accommodates large spreadsheets or multiple applications on the screen simultaneously, allowing them to easily compare multiple information sources.

Designed to provide the best system performance in a truly mobile computer, the Gateway 8510GZ is based on the Intel(R) 915 chipset and features.

Intel Centrino Mobile Technology and an Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 740 with 533MHz front side bus, as well as 512MB of fast Dual Channel DDR2 memory.

Ready for work and play, the Gateway 8510GZ includes dedicated ATI Mobility(TM) Radeon(R) X700 graphics with 64MB of Video Memory for enhanced gaming, graphic-intense applications and digital media. Storing and accessing information is easy with the PC's large 100GB hard drive(2), four-in-one memory card reader and a double-layer DVD+/-R/RW multi-format drive that can store up to 8.5GB of data on double layer DVD media.

Students and small business professionals who need to input numerical data quickly can conveniently use the notebook's dedicated 10-key numeric key pad. In addition, the Gateway 8510GZ features the latest high speed connectivity including 10/100/1000 Ethernet and 802.11g wireless LAN.

The Gateway 8510GZ notebook comes standard with Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition and Microsoft Works 8.0. It has a manufacturer's suggested retail price of $1,449.99.

Intel Centrino Technology

Intel Pentium M Processor 740 (1.73 GHz)

17" Widescreen Ultrabright TFT WXGA LCD

512MB of 400MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM (expandable to 2GB)

ATI Mobility Radeon X700 graphics with 64MB of memory

AC '97 2.3 Compliant Audio with built-in speakers

100GB HDD

Double Layer DVD Writer (write speeds) - up to 2.4x Double Layer DVD+R, 8x DVD-/+R, 4x DVD-/+RW, 24x CD-R, & 10x CD-RW

Double Layer DVD Writer (read speeds) - up to 24x CD-ROM & 8x DVD-ROM

4-in-1 Digital Media Manager - supports Secure Digital (SD), Memory Stick, Memory Stick PRO, MMC)

56K V.92 Fax Modem

Built-in 802.11g Wi-Fi Wireless LAN Adapter

One Type I/II PC Card Slot

Integrated Microphone

Ports - 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet, 4 USB 2.0, 1 FireWire, 1 S-Video, 1 VGA, Microphone In, Headphone / Audio Out, & Advanced Port Replicator Port


 

Processor  Intel Pentium M
Screen Size (Inches/Diagonal)  17
Optical Disc Drive  DVD+-RW / CDRW Combo with Dual Layer
Hard Drive (GB)  100
Memory - Processing RAM included  512MB
Memory - Processing RAM Maximum  2GB
Memory - Video RAM  64MB Dedicated
Connection - USB  4
Connection - IEEE1394 Firewire  1
Wireless Capability  Built-in
Connection - For External Display Analog  1
Connection - For External Display TV  1
Connection - Wireless Network 802.11  802.11b / 802.11g
Connection - Media Card Reader  Yes
Connection - PCMCIA / PC-Card  Yes
Connection - Sound  Yes
Connection - RJ11  Yes
Connection - RJ45  Yes
Connection - Video  Out
Operating System  Microsoft Windows XP Home
Software  Pre-Installed by Manufacturer
Unit Dimensions - High  1.50
Unit Dimensions - Long / Wide  16
Unit Dimensions - Deep  11
Unit Weight - Approximate with Battery  8.0