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Gateway's
M1200 Tablet PC, will you
want to buy one?
by Sam R. Clemens, Reviews Manager
April 29, 2003
Inside is a low
voltage Mobile Intel Pentium III running at 866MHz, with 256MB of SDRAM
and a 40GB HDD. You’ll see this same processor configuration in
most of the other Tablet PC’s too. It seems like a slow processor
in today’s mobile computer market, and you’d be right. While
not painfully slow in routine use, you will notice that it is no match
for a 2.2GHz P-4 full notebook when doing and showing graphics, or big
spreadsheet computations. A careful consideration here, for your intended
use.
A snap-on protective cover and there are
ports a plenty.
The removable battery
has five charge status indicator lights and it holds and honest 3.3
hours of mobile life. The recharge is complete in about four hours.
When you’re traveling with the M1200, there is a snap on cover
to protect the front of the unit.
Removable LI-ION Battery and a PC Card
Slot on the left.
But what if the Tablet PC is your only computing device, who wants to use it all the time as a tablet? It just isn’t going to be convenient for writing a long document, compiling a spreadsheet, creating graphics or multimedia projects and just surfing the Internet.
This is where that
Gateway M1200 Tablet PC package takes a major departure from the others.
Beside the Tablet, you also have a
lightweight 7/8th scale
keyboard (less number pad) with built-in touchpad mouse, an external (Sony
CRX810E) 16x FireWire DVD/CDRW combo drive and the most technologically
unique Tablet stand.
The M1200 stand
acts to not only securely cradle the Gateway Tablet, but it is also a
powered docking station with its own AC power supply. Everything on your
desktop plugs into the stand.
That’s not all
though, the very special feature of the stand is that it swivels the Gateway
Tablet PC from landscape to a vertical portrait aspect. While the M1200
is nestled in the cradle, just swivel it 90 degrees and the orientation
on its 12” display automatically changes to portrait mode. Perfect
for the layout of a document in full page view. Cooooool!
Rotate the stand
90o and the screen orientation follows.
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