Table 9. New Native Feature Support Under Windows 2000 - Compaq Armada 1500c White Paper

Operating System Support for Compaq Portable Products

Table 9. New Native Feature Support under Windows 2000

Feature
Premier Mobile Support
ACPI Power Management
New Hardware Support
Improved multimedia
Enhanced File Systems
Support for Industry
Standards
Intellimirror
Improved MultiMedia
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Source: www.microsoft.com/windows.
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Requires ACPI support in the hardware and BIOS. Refer to Table 6 for a list of Armada product families that support ACPI.
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IR is support under Windows 95 and Windows 98 but is not supported in Windows NT.
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Additional software not provided with Windows 2000 is required to play MPEG2 encrypted movies (i.e. Hollywood movies).
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Description
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.
Multiple hardware profiles based on environment, such as being docked or
undocked.
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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.
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 devices
Native DVD support, allowing customers to use a DVD drive as a CD-ROM drive
or play MPEG movie clips
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.
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