Compaq Armada E700 Operating System Support for Compaq Portable Products - Page 16

Operating System Support for Compaq Portable Products 16 Table 9. New Native Feature Support under Windows 200049 Feature Description Premier Mobile Support Hot and warm docking and undocking for ACPI platforms. Hot swapping of MultiBay devices (CD-ROM, floppy, DVD, LS-120, battery) and PC Cards for ACPI platforms. Offline files, folders, network drives and web pages, allowing users to take network resources offline then synchronize when reconnected. Synchronization Manager allows mobile users to automatically synchronize resources such as e-mail, calendars, and offline resources when connecting or disconnecting from the network. Battery management features allow hot swapping of batteries, tools to maximize battery life, and the ability to save data before the battery is fully drained. ACPI Power Management50 Multiple hardware profiles based on environment, such as being docked or undocked. The operating system now controls most power management functions rather than the BIOS. These functions include system sleep states, device low power states, processor low power states, device insertion and removal, hot/warm docking and undocking and battery capacity. Having the OS control power management allows better power management of individual devices and power management that takes application usage into account. The end result is better overall power management and longer battery life. New Hardware Support Plug and Play support. Operating system supplied thermal management. USB support. Multiple monitors - allows multiple monitors with different resolutions and refresh rates. Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) support. Smart Card support. Support for Infrared devices51. Improved multimedia Enhanced File Systems Support for Industry Standards Intellimirror Improved MultiMedia Native DVD support, allowing customers to use a DVD drive as a CD-ROM drive or play MPEG movie clips52. Direct X 7. Support for FAT16, Enhanced FAT32, Enhanced NTFS. NTFS allows hard drives up to 2 terabytes to be configured into a single partition. Encrypting File System (EFS) allows for the encryption of files under NTFS. Web-based Enterprise Management (WBEM). Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI). Allows users to completely duplicate their environment (data, applications, and operating system settings) on the network. Allows a mobile user to move about freely, having access to their environment wherever they go. Allows remote maintenance and trouble shooting by a network administrator. Native DVD support. DirectX 6.0 support. 49 Source: www.microsoft.com/windows. 50 Requires ACPI support in the hardware and BIOS. Refer to Table 6 for a list of Armada product families that support ACPI. 51 IR is support under Windows 95 and Windows 98 but is not supported in Windows NT. 52 Additional software not provided with Windows 2000 is required to play MPEG2 encrypted movies (i.e. Hollywood movies). NA120D/0199