Intel Investors - Gateway Announces new i815E-based PCs
Gateway E-3400 provides leading technology in a highly manageable, stable system maximizing customer return on investment. - Enables customers to standardize on a single platform resulting in significant reductions in qualifying time and ongoing support costs. - Includes Intel(R) 815 chipset which supports 133MHz front side system bus and 133MHz memory bus speeds.
Never heard Gateway praise the stability of AthWIper systems !!
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Company Press Release
SOURCE: Gateway Inc.
Gateway E-3400 Business Desktop Delivers Outstanding Performance, Platform Stability and Manageability With Support For New Intel 815 Chipset and Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
Editor's Summary - Gateway E-3400 provides leading technology in a highly manageable, stable system maximizing customer return on investment. - Enables customers to standardize on a single platform resulting in significant reductions in qualifying time and ongoing support costs. - Includes Intel(R) 815 chipset which supports 133MHz front side system bus and 133MHz memory bus speeds.
- Microsoft Windows(R) 2000 Professional provides business clients with increased reliability, manageability and enhanced security. - Features remote system monitoring and management capabilities including Wake on LAN and remote system alerting.
SAN DIEGO, June 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Continuing to expand its managed PC product offerings, Gateway Inc. (NYSE: GTW - news) today introduced the E-3400, a scalable, highly serviceable and stable desktop computing platform. The E-3400 features the next-generation Intel 815 chipset which supports ultra fast 133MHz system and memory bus speeds. The E-3400 also features support for Windows 2000 Professional, which Microsoft designed to be highly reliable and keep businesses up and running. Offering leading technology in a highly manageable system, the Gateway E-3400 desktop allows business clients to standardize on a single platform, enabling significant reductions in qualifying time and support expenses.
The E-3400 is an ideal solution for mission-critical and processing- intensive business applications such as accounting, inventory management and graphic design. Highly configurable, the E-3400 can satisfy customer needs for basic data processing to low-end CAD design.
``Building on Gateway's commitment to maximizing customer return on investment, the E-3400 features extended component life cycles designed to significantly reduce the cost of adding new systems to existing installations and reduce service and support expenses,'' said Mike Stinson, director, product marketing, Gateway Business. ``With the new Intel chipset, the E-3400 can also handle the demanding productivity requirements and workloads of today's competitive business environments.''
High-Performance System Features Intel 815 Chipset and Advanced Graphics Capabilities
Gateway's new E-3400 delivers high-performance with Intel's 815 chipset coupled with support for the latest Intel Pentium III processors. To improve overall system performance, the Intel 815 chipset supports the 133MHz front side bus as well the 133MHz memory bus. For data-intensive business applications such as extensive spreadsheet computations, graphic design, CAD and database management, the new Intel chipset greatly accelerates system and memory bus speeds as well as data transfer rates. The E-3400 features a range of Intel Pentium© III processors including 667MHz, 733MHz, 800MHz, 866Mhz and 933MHz.
The E-3400's 815 chipset also features integrated graphics support along with advanced graphics technology options. Gateway extends the E-3400's graphics capabilities by bundling a choice of high-performance ATI RAGE(TM) graphics cards supporting the 2X and 4X AGP standards.
The system comes standard with 128MB of high-speed 133MHz SDRAM memory and is expandable to 512MB of total system memory. Storage options include 7.5GB and 15GB ATA66 drives as well as ultra-fast 7200RPM ATA66 20GB to 30GB hard drives. The 5-bay desktop configuration features integrated LAN support, while the 7-bay mid-tower includes LAN support as an add-in PCI-based network interface card.
Highly Serviceable to Accommodate Upgrades and Repairs
The E-3400 chassis features a highly serviceable design, which offers a wide range of options for upgrades and repairs. The system is offered in 5- bay desktop and 7-bay mid-tower configurations. The system includes unique design features that offer easy accessibility to internal components, such as a quick-release motherboard, screwless and rail-less exterior drive bays for easy drive installation and tool-free I/O adapter card installation. Enhancing the ease of serviceability, the 5-bay design offers one thumbscrew access to the interior while the 7-bay option features an extendable drive cage which allows for easy access to board-level components.
Manageability Features Minimize Maintenance and Maximize Productivity
The E-3400 features extensive manageability and security features enabling network managers to remotely manage PC inventory throughout the enterprise. Built into the E-3400 are onboard sensor devices to determine critical functions such as internal temperature, fan speeds, voltage and chassis intrusion. LANDesk© Client Manager, a computer ``health'' software program, is included on the system and provides instant reporting on vital system functions.
The E-3400 also offers other advanced system monitoring and management capabilities. Its Wake-on-LAN technology remotely powers on PCs by a network server enabling network administrators to perform routine maintenance procedures on the system during non-working hours. To monitor PCs in the enterprise, even when they are powered off, the E-3400 features remote system alerting technology offering real-time response to system problems in the event of a change to system settings, configurations and components.
Gateway Services for Business
Gateway offers small- to medium-sized businesses, education and government clients turnkey support programs which enable them to focus on growing and running their business, not their technology investments. A wide range of customizable services such as training, network installation and server integration enables companies to have technology deployed, enabled and fully integrated into their business while remaining focused on core objectives.
Pricing and Availability
The built-to-order Gateway E-3400 systems are available immediately, with prices starting at $1,489*. For more information about Gateway computers call 800-846-2106, visit the company's Web site at www.gateway.com or stop in one of more than 270 Gateway Country© store locations nationwide.
About Gateway
Gateway (NYSE: GTW - news), a Fortune 250 company founded in 1985, focuses on building lifelong relationships with consumers and businesses through complete technology personalization. Gateway ranked number one in U.S. consumer PC revenue in 1999(1) and was rated among the top ten best corporate reputations in America according to a survey conducted in August of 1999 by Harris Interactive and the Reputation Institute and published in The Wall Street Journal. Gateway employees worldwide provide clients with services and built- to-order computers that consistently win top awards from leading industry publications. Gateway had total global revenue of $8.65 billion in 1999 and shipped 4.68 million systems. For more information, visit our Web site at www.gateway.com.
(1) According to GartnerGroup/Dataquest US PC Quarterly statistics.
Prices and configurations subject to change without notice or
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