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CPU: Intel Mobile Pentium III at 650 MHz
Mainboard: Intel 440ZX chip set; PCI Bus version 2.1
Bus Speed: 100-MHz front side bus
BIOS:Phoenix Plug and Play Note BIOS 4.0, SMBIOS 2.3 support
Memory info.:
Synchronous DRAM computer memory
0 MB on-board memory expandable to 512 MB
Two SO-DIMM slots
SO-DIMM sockets accept 8-, 16-, 32-, 64-, 128-, and 256-MB SDRAM modules in any combination.
Use only PC100 memory modules.
I/O Ports and Connectors:
Parallel port (IEEE compliant)
Serial port
USB port version 1.0
Shared PS/2 port
Headphone port
Line-in port
Microphone port
Composite video out
Docking connector
External monitor
Optional RJ-11 (integrated modem)
Hard drive: IBM-DJSA-210, 9590MB w/384kB Cache, CHS=1299/240/63
Accepts 2.5-inch, 9.5-, and 12.7-mm hard disks.
CDROM drive: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache
*** Most of this information can be found on Gateway's website in the support section. The hard drive and cdrom drive info. was pulled from dmesg output.
Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 9
Kernel (uname -r):
2.2.20-idepci
Distribution:
Debian 3.0r2 "Woody"
I've been successful installing many distros on this laptop:
Slackware 8.0, 9.0, 9.1
Mandrake 9.0
Red Hat 8.0
Using RPMs for the lucent winmodem drivers, I was able to get the modem working just fine.
I don't really recommend using a heavy desktop environment with this machine since it only has 8MB of video memory. RH 8.0's "bluecurve" didn't have any problems, but things seem smoother with something light like fluxbox or blackbox.
The machine may come with a built-in network card. I didn't get that, so I'm using a Xircom PCMCIA card, which works just fine.
The touchpad configures just fine and most of the hardware is found and configured on the initial install of most modern (2003/2004) distros.
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