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Chapter 1
Taking a Look at the Computer 1-1
Writer: Betty Fessenden - Saved by: BLF - Saved date: 6/14/96
Part Number: 213660-001 - File name: CH1
Taking a Look at the Computer
This chapter provides an overview of the computer features and
components. Illustrations and tables identify external components
and give a brief description of their functions.
All models of the computer include the following features:
■ Intel Mobile Pentium processor
■ 8 or 16 megabytes DRAM memory (expandable up to 72 or 80
megabytes, respectively)
■ 256 Kbytes of Level 2 cache memory
■ True 64-bit system architecture
■ Upgradable flash ROM BIOS
■ High-performance PCI bus graphics with hardware-assisted
motion video acceleration (MVA)
■ Keyboard with built-in pointing device and mouse buttons
■ Removable hard drive in a dedicated hard drive bay
■ MultiBay that supports a CD-ROM drive, second hard drive,
diskette drive, second battery pack, or weight saver
■ One Type III PC Card (PCMCIA) slot that supports one Type III
card or any combination of two Type II and Type I cards
■ Infrared port and software that supports wireless IrDA or cable
links for file transfer, file synchronization, and printing
■ Built-in speakers, microphone, and jacks for Sound Blaster Pro
compatible stereo sound
■ Energy Star compliant power saving features
■ Ports and connectors for external equipment, including serial,
parallel, external monitor, and an external PS/2 pointing device,
keyboard, or numeric keypad
■ Desktop functionality with the optional MultiBay Expansion
Base that has two MultiBays, two Type III PC Card slots,
Ethernet RJ-45 and BNC connectors, a MIDI/game port.
■ Support for MultiBay Expansion Base
■ MultiBay-ISA Expansion Base
■ Support for MultiBay-ISA Expansion Base that has all the
features of the MultiBay Expansion Base plus full-length ISA
slot and Premier Sound audio
■ Support for the optional MPEG and TV Video Adapter, which
can be connected to the undocked computer, or to either
expansion base when the computer is docked.