Glossary
Sony Notebook User Guide
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PCMCIA | PCMCIA (Personal Computer Memory Card International Association) is the name of the |
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| computers. The cards used to be called PCMCIA cards, but as this was rather |
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| unpronounceable, these cards are now termed PC cards. An example of a PC card is a credit |
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Pixel | A pixel (Picture Element) is a part of your screen. Your screen is made up of thousands of |
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| pixels, enabling you to see colours and pictures on it. The more pixels, the higher the |
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| resolution and the better the image quality. |
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Port replicator | An additional device that you can connect to your notebook. The port replicator contains |
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| ports that enable you to connect additional peripherals (such as a printer or a monitor) to |
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| your VAIO. A port replicator is similar to a docking station, but does not include additional |
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| slots for adding expansion boards or storage devices. |
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Processor | The processor is the brains of the computer; it processes the instructions of your system’s |
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| programs. The processor is also known as the CPU or microprocessor and can be found on |
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| the motherboard (see this word) of your computer. |
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Product recovery | The product recovery |
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| recovery |
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PS/2 | A type of mouse or keyboard port. |
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PSTN | PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network) refers to the plain old telephone service, the |
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| national telecommunication networks implementing voice transmission by using analog |
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RAM | Short for Random Access Memory, the memory used to run programs and store data in |
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| current use. RAM is the fastest kind of memory to read from and write to. Information stored |
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| in RAM is lost when you turn off the computer. The higher the RAM capacity, the faster your |
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| current data can be processed. |
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