Gateway Solo Specs
Gateway, Inc., which is now a subsidiary of Acer, Inc., released the original Solo notebook computer in 1995. According to The New York Times, at the time of its release, the Gateway Solo started at $3,499 and ran on Windows 95. While now discontinued, the original Gateway Solo is still available secondhand.
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CPU Specs
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Depending on the specific model, the Gateway Solo can utilize either a low-power, Intel P54CLM-90 Pentium Processor as its central processing unit (CPU) or a low-power, Intel P54CLM-120 Pentium Processor as its CPU. A CPU is responsible for controlling and executing a computer's instructions. The frequency with which a CPU is able to generate electronic pulses for performing these instructions in known as CPU speed. While Gateway Solo notebooks with P54CLM-90 processors can attain CPU speeds of 90 MHz, Solo notebooks with P54CLM-120 processors can attain CPU speeds of 120 MHz.
Size & Battery Specs
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With its screen folded down in the closed position, the Gateway Solo notebook computer has dimensions of 11.8 inches wide by 8.8 inches deep by 2.0 inches high. The thickness of the notebook helps it accommodate a 5-inch internal CD-ROM drive. With its battery attached, the Gateway Solo weighs approximately 6.3 lbs. The Solo is powered by a rechargeable lithium-ion battery with a charge capacity of 2700mAh and an average life expectancy of 38.88 watt-hours. This latter measurement translates to about 2.5 to 4 hours of battery life during typical Windows operation and about three weeks in power-standby mode.
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Display Specs
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The screen of the Gateway Solo relies on active matrix liquid crystal display (LCD) technology. Unlike with standard LCD, active matrix technology employs individual transistors for illuminating each of a screen's pixels, or tiny colored squares. Using active matrix technology, the Solo's screen can provide a dot pitch of 0.264mm and a contrast ratio of 100 to 1. While dot pitch is a reference to the distance between each of a pixel's "dots" or sub-pixels, contrast ratio refers to the difference between the darkest black colors and the lightest white colors a screen can produce. The size of the Gateway Solo's screen is 10.4 inches, as measured along the screen's diagonal.
Memory Specs
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The Gateway Solo relies on dynamic random access memory (DRAM) as its main system memory source. More specifically, the Solo utilizes 3.3V, 70ns lower-power DRAM and can accommodate DRAM capacities of 8MB, 16MB, 24MB or 40MB. In addition to main memory, the Gateway Solo provides 16KB of cache memory, for providing the CPU with commonly-accessed data, and 1MB of video memory, for aiding in the video-rendering.
Ports & Slots
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An assortment of ports and slots allow users to attach external components to the Gateway Solo. Ports include a DB25, 1.44MB 3.5-inch floppy drive; a DB9 serial port; a PS/2 keyboard and mouse port; an IR port; a video port and a docking bar connector. Slots include two PCMCIA Type II expansion slots, which are stacked to form a Type III PCMCIA expansion slot.
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