Alienware Area-51 m5500, User Manual

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chapter 1 getting to know the basics
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Performance Features
High-Performance Processor with Alviso Chipset
The notebook PC is equipped with a powerful Mobile Intel Pentium
M or Celeron M processor. Together with the latest Alviso chipset
and technologies, the system offers advanced PC performance.
Unique Dual Graphic Boot Feature
The system has two graphics engines built-in. A switch allows you
to choose either the external MXM graphics engine or the
integrated Intel GMA900 Extreme3 graphics engine. This unique
feature gives you the flexibility to select the graphics engine that is
best-suited for your needs – higher performance or lower battery
consumption. Both graphic engines are DirectX 9 compatible.
LCD Display
The computer is equipped with a wide 15.4” TFT high-resolution
display panel for clear text and brilliant colors.
Expandability
The system offers an upgradeable hard disk drive and 2 DDR
SDRAM sockets for expansion, allowing you to easily increase the
storage and system capacities as the need arises.
Built-in Multiple Card Reader
The built-in 4-in-1 card reader lets you access many portable
media formats (SD Card, MMC Card, MS Card, and MS Pro Card).
Ethernet Port
The system provides a built-in 10/100Mbps or 10/100/1000Mbps
Ethernet network adapter for high-bandwidth network connection
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Firewire (IEEE1394/1394a) and USB2.0 ports
In addition to a full array of built-in I/O por
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