Display - Acer 1700 User Manual

12 Getting familiar with your computer

Display

The 15" or 17" display panel provides a large viewing area for maximum
efficiency and ease-of-use. The liquid crystal display (LCD) supports extended
graphics array (XGA) resolution, enabling 16 million colors at 1024 x 768 for
15". For 17", it supports SXGA resolution with16 million colors at 1280 x
1024 .
Video performance
Your Aspire 1700 series computer features an accelerated graphics port (AGP)
video system with SiS M650 embedded VGA engine and 32MB UMA RAM,
and nVIDIA NV-18M series(64MB AGP card) as option. This provides a robust
solution, while enabling high quality video output.
Simultaneous display
Your computer's large display, combined with its multimedia capabilities,
makes it ideally suited to delivering presentations.
You can also connect an external monitor or projector, and then choose to
use the computer's LCD panel only, the external device only, or the LCD panel
and external device simultaneously.
Simultaneous display allows you to manage a presentation on your computer,
while your audience watches the monitor or projector screen.