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# Item Icon Description
1 Battery lock latch Slide to unlock the battery.
2 Battery release latch Slide to remove the battery.
3 Battery bay Insert the battery into this bay.
4 Hard drive bay The hard drive is located in this bay.
5 Hard  drive  protector Protects the hard drive from accidental bumps 
and vibrations.
6 Memory bay The memory modules are located in this bay. 

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Features
This notebook was designed with the user in mind. Here are just a few of its 
many features:
Performance
■Mobile Intel® Pentium™ 4 Processor - M with Enhanced Intel® 
SpeedStep™ technology
■512K on-die L2 cache
■15.2” 15:10 SXGA (1280x854) widescreen TFT LCD panel
■nVidia® GeForce4 Go™ high-performance graphics chipset with 32MB 
frame buffer
■Onboard memory upgradeable to 1024 MB with 2 DDR-266 SoDIMM
■High-capacity, Enhanced-IDE...

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Connectivity
■High-speed fax/data software modem 
■Onboard PCI 10/100 Mbps LAN support
■Fast infrared wireless communication
■3 USB (Universal Serial Bus) ports (2.0)
■2 IEEE 1394 ports (one unpowered 4-pin port and one powered 6-pin port)
■802.11b wireless LAN
Human-centric design and ergonomics
■Sleek, smooth, and stylish design
■Full-sized keyboard
■Ergonomically-centered touchpad pointing device 
■Multi-function buttons
Expansion
■Upgradeable memory 

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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...

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Status indicators
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Status indicators
Your notebook has seven easy-to-read status indicators (LEDs) under the LCD 
panel.
The Power and Standby indicators are visible even when you close the LCD 
panel so you can see the status of your notebook while the cover is closed. 

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# Item Icon Description
1 Wireless 
communicationLights when the Wireless LAN capabilities are 
enabled.
2 Power Lights when your notebook is on.
Blinks when a battery-low condition occurs.
3 Standby Blinks when notebook enters Hibernation 
mode.
4 Media activity Lights when the hard drive or DVD/CD-RW 
drive is active.
5 Battery charge Lights when the battery is being charged.
6 Caps Lock Lights when Caps Lock is activated.
7Num lock
(...

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Keyboard
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Keyboard
The keyboard has full-sized keys with an embedded keypad, separate cursor 
keys, two Windows keys, and twelve function keys.
Special keys
Lock keys
The keyboard has three lock keys which you can toggle on and off.
Lock Description
Caps Lock When Caps Lock is on, all alphabetic characters typed 
are in uppercase.
Num Lock 
(
FN+F11)When Num Lock is on, the embedded keypad is in 
numeric mode. The keys function as a calculator 
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Embedded numeric keypad
The embedded numeric keypad functions like a desktop numeric keypad. It is 
indicated by small characters located on the upper-right corner of the key caps. 
To simplify the keyboard legend, cursor-control key symbols are not printed 
on the keys
Desired Access Num Lock On Num Lock Off
Number keys on 
embedded keypadType numbers in a normal 
manner.
Cursor-control keys 
on embedded keypadHold 
SHIFT while using...

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Windows keys
The keyboard has two keys that perform Windows-specific functions.
Hotkeys
Your notebook employs hotkeys or key combinations to access most of your 
notebook’s controls like screen contrast and brightness and the BIOS Setup 
utility.Key Description
Windows logo 
keyStart button. Combinations with this key perform special 
functions. Below are a few examples:
á 
+ TAB (Activates next taskbar button)
á 
+ E (Opens My Computer)
á 
+ F (Finds a file)
á 
+ M (Minimizes...

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Activating hotkeys
When activating hotkeys, press and hold the FN key before pressing the other 
key in the hotkey combination.Hot Key Function Icon Description
F
N+F1Hotkey  help Displays a list of the hotkeys and 
their functions.
FN+F2Standby Puts your notebook in 
StandbyStandby mode, which 
can be defined through the 
advanced section of the Power 
Management Properties in the 
Windows Control Panel.
FN+F3Display  toggle Switches...