Gateway 200XL
September 21st, 2003 | by Ian Bell
Performance
The first thing we noticed about the 200XL notebook was that the system feels a lot faster than its 1.6GHz CPU would indicate. We experienced little or no system lag both while it was plugged into its AC adapter or running in Speed Step mode while unplugged. In our Mobile Mark test the 200XL scored a high 165 rating besting the Sony VAIO Z1A and Gateway's own 450XL notebook. Using the optional battery we were able to get 3 hours 48 minutes of juice before the system died on us. In our 3dMark tests the 200XL was about even with the Sony Z1A which utilizes the same Intel graphics chipset. Gamers that are into first person shooters will certainly want to go for a notebook computer using either NVIDIA or ATI graphics; the 200XL is more oriented toward business users than graphic intensive programs. Just to give you an example, the 200XL was only able to sustain an unplayable 32 frame per second with Quake 3 Arena at a 1024x768 resolution. System Configurations: Gateway 200XL Sony VAIO PCG-Z1A Gateway DS 450 XL
Windows XP Professional; 1.6GHz Intel Pentium M; 512MB DDR
Windows XP Home; 1.3GHz Intel Pentium M; 512MB DDR
Windows XP Home; 1.5GHz Intel Pentium M; 512MB DDR SDRAM 266MHz; ATI Mobility Radeon 7500 32MB; Toshiba MK4018GAP 40GB 4,200rpm
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by Jane on October 24, 2005:
“I had endless problems with this computer from the day i bought it. There is a documented flaw in the ribbon that connects the hard drive to the motherboard, and it causes the computer to crash, become very unstable, and frequently makes it unable to load...” More...