Energy Savings

In standard configurations, this computer complies with the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s Energy Star Program, which promotes the manufacture of energy-efficient printers, computers, and monitors. Your computer’s

“Green PC” feature places the hard disk drive in a low-power standby mode when the mouse or keyboard has been inactive for a specified period of time.

Note

If you have an Energy Star compliant monitor, it also goes into a low-power standby mode because it isn’t receiving video signals from your computer. (Screens on non-compliant monitors go blank, but do not enter a

low-power standby mode.)

Optional Equipment

You can easily upgrade your computer by installing additional memory and a wide variety of options, as described in Chapters 3 and 4.

Memory

By adding 1MB or 4MB SIMMs (single inline memory modules) to the main system board, you can expand the computer’s memory up to 16MB.

Video Memory

You can increase the video memory in your system to 1MB, which allows you to use higher resolutions with more colors.

Introduction 3