Chapter 2: Getting Familiar with Your Notebook

LCD panel

The graphics display offers excellent viewing, display quality, and desktop-performance graphics. Your notebook supports a widescreen Thin-Film Transistor (TFT) liquid crystal display (LCD) displaying up to 16.7 million colors at 1280 × 854 Super eXtended Graphics Array (SXGA) resolution.

Simultaneous display

Your notebook’s crisp display and multimedia capabilities are great for giving presentations. If you prefer, you can also connect an external monitor when giving presentations. This notebook supports simultaneous LCD and CRT display. Simultaneous display allows you to control the presentation from your notebook and at the same time face your audience. You can also connect other output display devices such as LCD projection panels for large-audience presentations.

Power management

The power management system incorporates an “automatic LCD dim” feature that automatically dims the LCD when your notebook is powered by a battery to conserve battery power. See “Managing Power” on page 45 for more information on power management features.

Opening and closing the LCD panel

To open the display, slide the cover release latch to the left and lift up the LCD panel, then tilt it to a comfortable viewing position. See “Connecting and starting your notebook” on page 2. Your notebook employs a microswitch that turns off the LCD panel (enters Standby mode) to conserve power when you close the LCD panel, and turns it back on when you open the LCD panel.

Important If an external monitor is connected, your notebook turns off the LCD panel (but does not enter Standby mode) when you close the LCD panel.

To close the LCD panel, fold it down gently until the cover release latch clicks into place.

Warning

To avoid damaging the LCD panel, do not slam it when you

 

close it. Also, do not place any object on top of your

 

notebook when the LCD panel is closed.

 

 

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