SAN DIEGO, April 11 /PRNewswire/ -- As graduating high school seniors
prepare for college, there are enough unknowns to cause a little uneasiness
for even the most self-assured. But one unknown that's easily addressed is a
college's individual technology requirements for students. Gateway Country
has the computing answers for millions of U.S. high school seniors who are
soon to be college freshmen. Special Gateway For Grads Nights help students
and their families learn the technology requirements for their new college or
university and give them chances to win money for college and cool prizes like
MP3 players and digital cameras. These specific nights for seniors and their
families are held Tuesday and Thursday evenings through June 2001 in Gateway's
nearly 300 U.S. stores.
"Having just gone through this process as a parent of a college freshman,
I know how important it is to get the right information about computers. Once
seniors make the big decision about which school to attend, Gateway wants to
help them understand the computing requirements of their new school," said
Judy Quye, vice president, Gateway Country. "Gateway For Grads Nights offer
personal advice on the best computing solutions including new college specials
on Gateway desktops and notebooks."
Gateway Country Solutions Advisors will help students find the information
they need to make sure their computers fit into their new school's network,
learn what computer is the most dorm friendly and hear about the coolest
technologies: like creating your own music CD's with a CD-RW drive and letting
mom and dad know you've made it through mid-term exams by sending a video
greeting from your PC.
Students can register online at http://www.gateway.com/grads to win a host of
prizes including: two-$10,000 cash awards, five-$5,000 cash awards,
10-$2,000 cash awards, 50-Nomad II MP-3 players and 75-Intel Deluxe PC
Cameras.
College Specials
Gateway has unveiled two College Specials computing systems designed to
meet the needs of today's college students along with special software and
hardware bundles that include a 10/100 Ethernet card, critical to many
colleges' internal IT systems.
The Gateway Solo(R) 1150CL notebook gives students computing power and the
luxury of portability on campus all for $1,199. It includes a 12.1" color
display, 650MHz Intel Celeron processor, Integrated CD-ROM and 6GB hard drive.
A special Off-to-College Portable Bundle includes an Ethernet card to allow
for on-campus connecting, lock, saddle bag and special software to let
students start the semester right.
The Gateway Essential(TM) 933 offers desktop computing at its best with a
17" monitor (15.9" viewable), 933MHz Pentium III processor, 20GB hard drive
and 20Xmin./ 48X max. CD-ROM and Boston Acoustic speakers and is priced at
$999. A special Off-to-College Desktop Bundle allows the student to replace
the CD-ROM drive with a Recordable/Rewritable CD-RW drive and an Ethernet card
as well as special Gateway College:)Ware software.
About Gateway
Gateway (NYSE: GTW) a Fortune 500(R) company founded in 1985, focuses on
building lifelong relationships with consumers, small and medium businesses
and government and education institutions by helping clients meet all their
technology needs. Gateway is ranked as the most admired American company in
the Computers and Office Equipment industry in a Fortune Magazine survey (1)
and is the top brand in customer loyalty and for first-time home computer
purchases of Wintel-based PCs (2). The company had total global revenue of
$9.6 billion in 2000. For more information, visit our Web site at
http://www.gateway.com.
(1) Fortune Magazine, "America's Most Admired Companies," February 19,
2001.
(2) From the Harris Interactive Consumer TechPoll(SM) study of 140,000 PC
owners who use the Internet, released March 5, 2001.
SOURCE Gateway
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Related links:
http://www.gateway.com
CONTACT:
Greg Lund, Gateway Consumer, 858-799-2512,
greg.lund@gateway.com
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