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Gateway^TM Solo^TM 9100 multimedia notebook wins BYTE Magazine's Best Portable of COMDEX/Spring '97 award

NORTH SIOUX CITY, SD, June 10, 1997 - Gateway 2000, Inc. (NYSE: GTW), a global leader in the direct marketing of PCs, was recently honored in BYTE Magazine's Spring COMDEX awards. Gateway 2000 won the Best Portable of COMDEX/Spring '97 award for its recently released Gateway Solo 9100 multimedia notebook. The BYTE Magazine awards were created to help recognize new products that are innovative and will have an impact on the industry.

"Gateway 2000 is pleased to accept BYTE Magazine's top honor for Spring COMDEX ‘97 in the portable category," said Dave Berger, director of product marketing, Americas. "We would like to thank BYTE Magazine, its readers and our customers for continually encouraging us to build better products, and for recognizing our efforts."

About Gateway Solo 9100 Notebook
As the newest entry in the "mega" notebook class, the Gateway Solo 9100 multimedia notebook is a "no-compromise", premium mobile solution, boasting a number of industry leading design features. These include high-powered Intel^® Pentium^® processors with MMX^TM technology integrated on Intel's new Mobile Modules Operation (MMO) module, 13.3-inch XGA active matrix TFT display, high-performance SDRAM memory with expansion capacity up to 192MB, 4MB of video memory standard, a combination CD-ROM and floppy disk drive, a 12-cell, 60WHr Lithium Ion battery pack, Universal Serial Bus (USB) and NTSC In and Out ports. Prices for the Gateway Solo 9100 notebook start at $4,299, and the system can be configured to meet customers' unique needs.

Gateway 2000 offers toll-free technical support for the entire Gateway Solo line, twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. Customers can order Gateway Solo portable products by calling 800-846-2000, or they can find out additional information by contacting the Gateway 2000 Internet site at www.gw2k.com.

About Gateway 2000, Inc.
Gateway 2000, Inc., a Fortune 500 company founded in 1985, is a global leader in the direct marketing of PCs. The company, headquartered in North Sioux City, South Dakota, has manufacturing facilities in the United States, Ireland and Malaysia, and employs over 10,000 people worldwide. Gateway 2000 products and services consistently win top awards from leading industry publications. In 1996, the company shipped 1.9 million systems and reported revenues of $5 billion. Revenue for the first quarter of 1997 was $1.4 billion with net income of $67.5 million.

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