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Gateway 400SD4 manual

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    www .gatew ay .com Specifications for the Gateway 400SD4 Notebook Specifications are subjec t to change without notice or obligation. Proce sso r an d Core Log ic Proc esso r opt ion s ■ One Intel ® Celeron ™ CPU -OR- ■ One Intel ® Pentium 4 ™ CPU T o deter mine you r notebo ok’s proce ssor , click Start , My Comput er , then click Vi e[...]

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    2 www .gatew ay .com Graphic s con troller ■ AT I M 6 - P ■ 256-bit 3D and 2D g raphic s accele rator ■ Support 64-bit DDR SDRAM ■ ACPI compliant Video memory 32 MB DDRAM LCD dis play pane l 14.1-inch or 15.0-i nch activ e matrix (T F T) LCD co lor display Maximu m pane l resol ution: 1024 × 76 8 Maximu m colo r depth: 32-b it (16.7 millio[...]

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    3 Specif ications for the G ateway 4 00SD4 Notebo ok www .gatew ay .com Sound su pport ■ Multi-stre am Direc t Sound and Direct Sou nd 3D accelera tion ■ SoundBlast er Pro, MIDI , Windows Sound Syst em compatib le, MP3 , WMA ■ Advanced Configur ation and Po wer Interfa ce 1.0 (ACPI 1.0) co mplia nt ■ Advanced Power Manage ment 1.2 (APM 1.2)[...]

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    4 www .gatew ay .com Pointing device ■ Gatew ay E Z-Pa d ™ to uchpad ■ 4-button de sign Programm able keys Four program mable “ho t keys” (d efault func tions: la unch e-mail, W eb browser , help applicat ion, us er definabl e) Status in dicators ■ Caps lo ck ■ PA D l o c k ■ Scroll loc k ■ Hard driv e acce ss ■ Disket te drive [...]

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    5 Specif ications for the G ateway 4 00SD4 Notebo ok www .gatew ay .com Disk ette drive (f actory ins talle d opti on) ■ Supports 3.5 -inch, 1.44 MB capacity diskette s ■ Data transfe r rates up to 5 00 Kbps ■ Non-remo vable des ign Optica l drive Av ailable dr ives i nclude: ■ CD ■ DVD ■ CD-RW ■ Combination DVD/CD-RW ■ DVD-R/RW T o[...]

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    6 www .gatew ay .com Power mana gement ■ Advanced Configur ation and Po wer Interfa ce 1.1 (ACPI 1.1) support ■ SMBIOS 2.3 ■ PC 2001 c ompliant Controls ■ Keyboard-a ctiva ted pop- up displa y gives b attery charge as a perce ntage rema ining ■ Icon on taskb ar shows bat tery charge as a percentag e remainin g Power switch Power On/Of f o[...]

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    7 Specif ications for the G ateway 4 00SD4 Notebo ok www .gatew ay .com Dimen sions 15.0-inc h displa y ~13.1 × 10.6 × 1.6 i n. (W × D × H) ~334 × 275 × 42.5 mm (W × D × H) 14.1-inch dis play ~13.1 × 10.6 × 1.58 in. (W × D × H) ~334 × 275 × 40 mm (W × D × H) System we ight 15.0-inch dis play (incl udes Disk ette drive, C D driv e, a[...]