Compaq LTE 5000 manual Taking a Look at the Computer

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Chapter 1

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.

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