Compaq 6500 Family manual Getting to Know Your Computer, Features

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Getting to Know Your Computer

This chapter identifies and describes the industry leader features, components, controls, and indicators of your Compaq Armada 6500 notebook computer. It also describes how to use the integrated touch pad as well as how to replace the system battery.

Features

The Compaq Armada 6500 is a high-performance notebook computer designed for the mobile professional. It offers the best-in-class features for a notebook computer.

·Intel Pentium II Processor 300 MHz or greater.

·2X AGP support

·512KB Level 2 pipelined sync-burst cache.

·6GB or larger Hard Drive

·64MB onboard SDRAM memory - expandable to 192MB or greater using 3.3V SDRAM SO-DIMMs.

·14.1 inch TFT XGA Color LCD Display.

·4MB SGRAM Video memory.

·External monitor support up to 1600 x 1200.

·CardBus slots - Two Type I or Type II cards or one Type III card.

·Zoomed Video support using lower CardBus slot - using Zoomed Video PC Cards in this slot enables the viewing of full motion video applications, such as MPEG playback, video capture and TV.

·Hot Swappable Expansion Bay for Diskette, CD-ROM or Optional Drive Modules.

·LCD Status display provides operating status of the computer.

·Integrated Touch Pad pointing device.

·Integrated 10/100 BaseT Ethernet/56K Data/FAX modem combo PC Card.

·16-bit Stereo Audio - internal microphone and stereo speakers with connections for an external microphone and stereo head- phones, speakers, or an amplifier.

·Smart Lithium Ion (LiIon) battery.

·APM 1.2 compliant Power Management - customizes system power usage based on your needs.

·Fast Infrared (FIR) Interface - allows the transfer of information with devices that have an infrared or fast infrared (FIR) interface.

·Supports hot docking to Compaq Mobile 6500 Expansion Unit or Compaq Armada 6500 Convenience Base.

·Full sized 85 key Windows keyboard.

·USB support.

·Microsoft ACPI support for Windows 98

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