Opinions on Dell's Latitude X200 / Gateway 200?

manko

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Dell X200

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<< The Latitude X200 weighs 2.8 pounds (1.26 kilograms) and is four-fifths of an inch thick (20.32 millimeters), with a 12.1 inch XGA (extended graphics array) TFT (thin film transistor) display, giving its screen a maximum resolution of 1,024 by 768 pixels.

The sleek new laptop comes with a 30G-byte ATA-100 hard drive, up to a 640M-byte PC133 SDRAM (Synchronous Dynamic RAM) and an Ultra Low Voltage Mobile Intel Pentium III-M 800 MHz processor combined with an Intel 830MG chipset.

The X200 is geared even more toward mobile users, with a 56K bps (bit per second) V.92 modem with an integrated 3Com 10/100 Ethernet, and a six-cell 20-watt hour "smart" Lithium Ion battery. The new laptop has two USB (universal serial bus) ports, one PC Card slot, and one six-pin IEEE 1394 port.

The Latitude X200 starts at $1,899 with these standard features and will begin shipping in all of Dell's worldwide regions in mid to late May, the spokesman said. The company is also offering an array of customized options that can ratchet up the price a few hundred dollars more, however.

Users can choose to add a X200 Media Base with a choice of optical drives such as CD-ROM, CD-RW (CD-rewritable), or a combination of CD-RW/DVD starting at $299. When attached to the media base, the X200 still weighs less than 5.5 pounds, Dell said.
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Is this possibly the rumored 4200? If not, does anyone have more information about the 4200?
 

manko

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I just noticed this important info:



<< While the X200 is new from Dell, it's not new to the market. Gateway offers a similar version of the notebook designed by Samsung, a long-time Dell partner.

Gateway's version of the notebook, its Gateway 200, weighs 3 pounds and includes a 933MHz Pentium III-M processor, 256MB of RAM and a 20GB hard drive. It sells for $1999, including the expansion base.
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Gateway 200 (933MHz PIII-M)

Anyone have one of these?
 

manko

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I never heard much more about these two, but they are the exact same model made by Samsaung. The Gateway is a much better deal though, it's a faster CPU, the port replicator/base is included, where as Dell's is sold seperately. I'm still holding out for the next crop of notebooks, but right now I really like this Gateway or the Dell C400 Latitude.

The only thing I don't like about it, is the lack of S-Video out and the shared video memory (I want a mobile Radeon).
 

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i'm guessing 4200 will probably be p4-m with some sort of decent 3d accel and about 5 lbs, since it sounds like the successor to 4100.
 

akiraxtc

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It's OT but omg manko... do you have any idea what your screen name means in japanese? :D
 

manko

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akiraxtc, congrats - you're only the second person here to ever get the joke!
 

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Originally posted by: akiraxtc
It's OT but omg manko... do you have any idea what your screen name means in japanese? :D

Haha...if the mods knew/understood, they probably wouldn't allow it.