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Faster GCT ?? (modified 0 times) BigDog Profile | Email According to Transmeta, they show the GCT which has a Crusoe TM5400 processor. This processor can be ran as fast as 700mhz, the Transmeta website even states the GCT is actually a 533 mhz computer (what's up with that??) http://www.transmeta.com/everywhere/products/appliances/gateway/gateway_touchpad.html I thought the regular GCT has a TM3200 processor?? You don't think that there is going to be a new version of the GCT coming out ? I had to bring something here, this section has been really cooling down lately!! http://www.geek.com/procspec/transmeta/tm3120.htm http://www.geek.com/procspec/transmeta/tm5400.htm 03-26-2002 14:23:21

RE:Faster GCT ?? (modified 0 times) BigDog Profile | Email Hold on a minute.... The "specs" at http://www.transmeta.com/everywhere/products/appliances/gateway/gateway_touchpad_specs.html states that it has 256 ram, PCMCIA card bus slot and 100base-tx ethernet. This is a different machine, is Gateway going to sell these soon? (Yea, right!) 03-26-2002 15:00:36

RE:Faster GCT ?? (modified 0 times) 02U2 Profile 10" TFT display too! Me thinks someone forgot to pull the plug for that page.... 03-26-2002 23:05:09

RE:Faster GCT ?? (modified 0 times) BigDog Profile | Email I was looking at the other internet appliances from other companies that they showed which used the Transmeta processor, I coulndn't find any that were will on the market for sale. 2000 was the year of of internet appliances, too bad they all appear to have gone under... Perhaps the super GCT they showed was going to be the next generation for Gateway and never got delievered to the consumer since Gateway decided to cut costs for their stockholders. I wonder if there are a few of the higher end GCT floating around some where? 03-27-2002 06:25:12

RE:Faster GCT ?? (modified 0 times) GWIZAH Profile | Email Hmmm, Interesting specs... I bet these were in the prototype stage and never made it off the drawing board. 04-01-2002 21:52:10

RE:Faster GCT ?? (modified 0 times) bigdork1 Profile well boys long time no speak I am no longer with Gateway so I an tell you the GCT is dead This super GCT did exist and I have used one. There were only 2 made both have been distroyed today. All Gateway parties invloved in this projet are gone and all toys were distroyed. Sorry to dash your hopes. 04-09-2002 10:15:22

RE:Faster GCT ?? (modified 0 times) yellow2 Profile | Email Bigdork !!!!!!!! You were the one with the "early beta unit" right...Now I understand why you dropped off the face of this board shortly after telling us about that ! Were you in that appliance group ? 04-09-2002 14:43:41

RE:Faster GCT ?? (modified 0 times) bigdork1 Profile yea and I was striped of all documents before leaving. We have all been walked out. I am sorry I didn't help more at the begining of this adventure. I was gaged when they found out about the group. Funny thing is it was an internal source in management that told me about this group. I am better out of that place anyway. I will keep reading what you all have done to the unit. I always said it will only sell with a useable OS installed. They wanted AOL's money and sarified the system for it. That is ok thou, this is the f-up that got Jeff(CEO)fired. That lousy SOB. I wish I got $5M+ for being fired. 04-09-2002 20:49:58

RE:Faster GCT ?? (modified 0 times) BigDog Profile | Email That's a real power for the course in regards to the super GCT! If Gateway didn't have their head up their A$$, they could have sold those better GCT's in production if nothing but to a group of grass root "hacker" supporters and support only the design. Of course money always comes into the factor. There first mistake was the $599 price (discounted to $499) of course when they sold them for $149 I am sure they still made some profit! Transmeta should be forced to remove the advertisments of all the internet appliances powered by their processor, out of about five listed, I could only find one that was stll in production and even then I couldn't find a price on it. Good to see you back Bigdork! Is there any new things you can tell use about the GCT since it's a "dead" product? 04-10-2002 06:05:07

RE:Faster GCT ?? (modified 0 times) bigdork1 Profile Even at $599 they were losing there a$$. AOL subsidized it all. The limited number of them that was build drove the per unit price thru the roof. If people r looking for cool systems and r willing to pay for them keep looking to Gateway. The Profile line of computers offers the all in one feel with usability of Windows. After you add up the cost of all the mods everyone has done to the web surfers you are only short a few dollors from buying a waranteed system. I have to hand it to this board I have learned more from you all that school could ever teach:)) I would also like to personaly thank the finder of the 712 driver that made the touch sreen work, I had no was to get that from the vendor even inside of Gateway. This is the only use of this touch screen chip I am aware of. For those of you with touh sreen problems there were some bad touch screens that were liquidated with no Warantee sorry. And those of you in the industry reading this HI guys! 04-10-2002 08:50:16

RE:Faster GCT ?? (modified 0 times) GWIZAH Profile | Email So bigdork, Will this "stock" GCT that everyone has drive a TFT :) <sigh> Sucks to hear about your lousy experiences with Gateway... 04-10-2002 21:23:11

RE:Faster GCT ?? (modified 0 times) bigdork1 Profile ya but you need the correct panel with the correct wire harness there is a special socket in above the heatsink on all of them I have seen. I beleave you also need the correct inverter board that plugs into that socket. I don't know if it was left when the IDE pins were demoted from the board? I took the panel off of one of the super units and put it on a preprodcuton unit and it worked just fine. That was close to a year ago so I don't remember it to clearly. I wish I knew the model number to tell you which ones work. 04-11-2002 11:18:54

RE:Faster GCT ?? (modified 0 times) BigDog Profile | Email That connecter is still there, I don't have a board in front of me right now, but I believe I know the socket you are speaking of..... HHmmmmm.... TFT GCT ??? 04-11-2002 13:48:19

RE:Faster GCT ?? (modified 0 times) yellow2 Profile | Email FIC use a TFT for their Aqua device and it's the same platform, actually the 712 drivers that BD found work great on that device ! 04-14-2002 00:40:41

RE:Faster GCT ?? (modified 0 times) BigDog Profile | Email Yellow1; Are you saying the touchscreen drivers for the GCT workd on the AquaPad ???? I downloaded the drivers for the Aquapad touchscreen and they didn't seem to work on the GCT but there was many settings for the controller and I didn't play with it too much. There was a disclaimer in the readme that stated that the driver would only work on the Aquapad.... 04-14-2002 08:11:35

RE:Faster GCT ?? (modified 0 times) yellow2 Profile | Email Yep they work ! Where did you find the FIC drivers for the Aquapad ? cheers 04-14-2002 19:12:48

RE:Faster GCT ?? (modified 0 times) yellow2 Profile | Email According to this site: http://www.aquapad.org/ A W2K and WinXP version are forthcoming, so that's probably a good source for the touchscreen drivers. Were you referring to XP drivers yo downloaded Bigdog ? cheers 04-14-2002 20:36:50

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