Gateway Solo 9300
The Gateway Solo 9300 is a laptop computer released by Gateway in 2000. In the Gateway Solo Pro 9300 model it had a Pentium II processor, about twelve gigabytes of hard drive space, and over two hundred megabytes of RAM. By today's laptop technology standards, the Gateway Solo 9300 is not so useful. It does not even have integrated WiFi, instead having a 56.6k integrated modem, which is incredibly slow by today's standards. For this reason, the Gateway Solo 9300 can be bought for extremely low prices online.
On the internet auction site eBay (go to the web address www.ebay.com or search for "Gateway Solo 9300 Ebay" in your favorite online search engine) I found prices for the Gateway Solo 9300 under fifty dollars. The extra memory you can use to bring the Gateway Solo 9300 a little closer to current standards, and the power supplies and backup batteries which are available in greater abundance than the system itself, sell for about half of that price. At this point, the Gateway Solo 9300 has gone about as cheap as it can be expected to rationally go.
If you are not set on a high speed internet connection and are comfortable which plugging into the phone outlet for 56.6 speed internet access, and if you are only interested in using the most basic computing functions without using the most recent programs or a lot of multimedia, the Gateway Solo 9300 might be a good deal for you. If you are looking for the most basic laptop personal computer possible for simple tasks like word processing and writing financial documents, with the occassional wall connection to log onto your email account, the Gateway Solo 9300 can provide those functions for a price far below that of any modern laptop personal computers. It is also heartening to see how easy it is to find components for the Gateway Solo 9300, and that must speak to its receiving continued use among users searching for a true budget laptop. If this is what you are interested in buying, the Gateway Solo 9300 is basically as good a deal as you are likely to get.
|