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To: BillyG who wrote (34796)	7/30/1998 7:04:00 PM
From: John Rieman	Respond to of 50808

A Gateway machine with an Mpact-2 chip...................... www1.zdnet.com Under the hood are a 300-MHz Pentium II processor with built-in 512KB secondary cache, 32MB of SDRAM, and a 440LX chipset (which supports AGP graphics and Ultra DMA). The package also includes a 17-inch monitor, a DVD-II ROM drive, fair Altec-Lansing speakers, and a full-featured Ensoniq PCI sound card. The G6-300 uses a graphics board based on an Mpact 2 media processor, which handles both 3-D acceleration and DVD decoding tasks. The system's 3-D performance is not up to nVidia Riva 128 levels, however, so it's probably not the right choice for 3-D game fanatics. For less demanding applications, from education and productivity titles to less graphics-intensive games, the G6-300 performed well. Our one complaint is that sometimes the DVD-ROM drive dragged down performance when reading standard CD-ROMs. You won't find a better combination of price, performance, and family features than you'll find in the G6-300, and we happily Recommend it to most families. G6-300, 300-MHz Pentium II, 32MB SDRAM, 4GB drive, 17-inch monitor, 56-kbps fax modem (x2), DVD-II ROM drive. Gateway 2000, 800-846-4208; $1776.