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To: J Fieb who wrote (38838)	2/6/1999 12:28:00 PM
From: J Fieb	Respond to of 50808

Preview of gateway's next gen notebook has hardware MPEG accelerator Gateway Solo 5150LS There's a whole lot to like about Gateway's new 366MHz Solo 5150LS, a 7.6-pound notebook that boasts a vibrant 14.1-inch screen, a very large 6.4GB hard drive, an integrated high-capacity LS-120 3.5-inch drive and two USB ports. Our test unit, which included an optional DVD-ROM drive, sells for $3,309. A NeoMagic 256AV video controller with 2.5MB of memory drives the Solo's wide 14.1-inch screen, producing sharp displays. The audio system is well-suited for delivering presentations or playing DVD-ROM titles (Gateway includes a PC Card MPEG2 hardware accelerator). Although the keyboard feels slightly soft, it's comfortable to use for hours at a time. I really liked the scroller rocker switch that lets you quickly scroll through documents, spreadsheets and Web pages. The integrated LS-120 3.5-inch drive, which reads conventional floppy disks and high-capacity 120MB disks, increases the Solo's versatility. Microsoft Office 97 SBE comes preinstalled. The Solo 5150LS posted a WinScore of 78 and earned a WINdex rating of 6.8-the highest in this group. Its benchmark scores were right in line with the Micron TransPort Trek2 366-the other 366MHz-except for an exceptional cached disk score that was 20 points higher than the Micron's. There are a couple of downsides to the Solo: Its 1-hour, 43-minute battery life is below average, and Gateway only provides a one-year warranty. Nonetheless, the combination of its performance, component quality and feature set earn it a spot on our WinList.

To: J Fieb who wrote (38838)	2/6/1999 4:19:00 PM
From: John Rieman	Respond to of 50808

ATI PC/TV.................................. techweb.com February 08, 1999, Issue: 1047 Section: Product Week -- Subsystems -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PC board blends graphics, video and TV Toronto - A family of multimedia boards from ATI Technologies Inc. extends the company's architecture from 64 to 128 bits for PC/TV-convergence applications in the home-PC, education and small-office/home-office (Soho) markets. The All-in-Wonder 128 family combines 2- and 3-D graphics acceleration with advanced video and TV-tuning functions on a PCI or Advanced Graphics Port (AGP) board, said Alan McCann, ATI's director of board marketing. Based on ATI's Rage 128 GL graphics chip, the boards feature a 128-bit memory interface and a dual-pipeline architecture "to offer true-color 32-bit rendering without the performance drop seen with competing chips," said McCann. The boards offer 3-D texturing, superscalar rendering, a twin-cache architecture and 60-frame/second or faster performance. Also provided are real-time video compression, a stereo TV tuner, still- and motion-video capture from camcorders or VHS tape, and what McCann called a digital VCR capability, "where a PC can be programmed to record TV shows like a conventional VCR." TV-on-PC features of the boards and their bundled software include zoom; closed-captioning capture; instant replay; a TV magazine fea-ture, through which closed-captioning transcripts can be saved along with images; a Hot Words feature, which lets a PC monitor program for particular content; scheduled viewing, wherein a PC turns on its TV tuner at a designated time; and channel surf, which provides thumbnail previews in screen windows. ATI said the family is DVD-ready, able to decode and display full-screen, full-frame-rate MPEG-2 material when coupled in a system with a DTV-tuner board equipped with ATI DVD Player software. The boards run under Windows 95 or NT and require a host with at least a 200-MHz Pentium-class CPU. They support Direct 3-D games and OpenGL games as well as Macrovision 7 copy protection for legal display of protected DVD content. McCann said the board's single-pass multitexturing, texture compression and stencil buffers are suitable for Microsoft DirectX 6.0. The boards are sampling now. With 16 Mbytes of SDRAM, the estimated street price is $249; with 32 Mbytes, the price is $299. Call (905) 882-2600 www.atitech.com/ca_us/products/pc/aiw_128/index.html EETInfo No. 617 Copyright ® 1999 CMP Media Inc.