Compaq E500 Laptop User Manual


 
QuickSpecs
Compaq Armada E500
DA-10441 North America — Version 32— May 29, 2002 3
Standard Features
Storage Diskette Drives 1.44 MB
Optical Drives - One of the following:
Removable Drives
CD-RW Drive
8X DVD-ROM Drive
24X CD-ROM Drive
Zip 250 MG Drive
IBM
1 GB Micro Drive (PC Card Device)
Hard Drives - One of the following: 30-GB SMART
20-GB SMART
12-GB SMART
10-GB SMART
Multimedia
Compaq PremierSound™ for enhanced stereo audio
Integrated 16-bit Sound Blaster Pro-compatible stereo audio
Integrated stereo speakers and microphone
Software/hardware volume control
Headphone-out
Microphone-in
Software MPEG1 support, MPEG2 and DVD
CD-RW Drive (on select models)
8X DVD-ROM Drive with DVD movie playback software (on select models)
24X CD-ROM Drive (on select models)
RCA Composite TV-out port
2X AGP graphics
8-MB SDRAM
Interfaces PC Card Two Type II/One Type III
Enhanced Parallel EPP/ECP 1 (can be used to connect external diskette drive)
Serial Port 1
TV out connector NTSL/PAL 1
External Monitor 1
External Keyboard/
Pointing Device
1 Supports Y-cable in order to attach both Keyboard and
Mouse simultaneously
Expansion Base 1
Headphone/Line-out 1
Microphone in 1
DC Power 1
RJ-11 (modem) 1 (Model dependent)
RJ-45 (NIC) 1 (Model dependent)
Infrared Port 1 (4 Mb/s support)
(IrDA 4 MB compliant. IR performance will vary
depending on performance of IR peripherals and
application used.)
USB 1
LED status indicators 7
Graphics ATI Mobility PRO, 64-bit video graphics with 8-MB SDRAM for increased color depth and graphics performance
Operating System Windows 2000/Windows NT 4.0 (Dual Install)
NOTE: On Dual Install systems, the end user must make a one-time selection at initial start up. End users who
need to change to another Operating System (OS) other than the one originally selected must obtain a new
license for that OS.
Microsoft Windows 98 SE