The new desktops, designed for small- and medium-sized businesses, corporations, government agencies and educational institutions, take advantage of the growing number of multi-threaded applications on the market today, including Microsoft Windows XP, Adobe Acrobat and Autodesk AutoCAD 2004. They also help boost employee productivity by minimizing the impact of background services such as encryption, virus scanning and file compression.
Employees currently using an Intel(R) Pentium(R) III processor will enjoya 500 percent performance gain by switching to new Gateway desktops with Intel Pentium 4 processors and Hyper-Threading, according to SYSmark 2002 benchmarks. And workers already using Pentium 4 chipsets can also expect a more than 20 percent performance bump due to Hyper-Threading. Ultimately, this means Gateway PCs for businesses deliver the system performance employees need to be more efficient at work.
“In these days of tight budgets and limited resources, employees are constantly multi-tasking, so the last thing they need is a PC that slows down their productivity,” said Gateway’s John Engel, senior vice president and general manager of desktop products. “Gateway’s line of business desktop PCs with Hyper-Threading takes business PC users to the next level of performance to help them be more productive and save valuable time.”
“Intel’s Hyper-Threading Technology provides immediate benefits for how employees are working today,” said Randy Wilhelm, vice president of Intel’s Desktop Platforms Group. “Gateway PCs give businesses a high performance, reliable platform for busy workers who run multiple applications today, with headroom for tomorrow’s software environments.” Read more...
