Safety instructions.............................................................................................................................................................. 7

Safety precautions.........................................................................................................................................................7

Electrostatic discharge-ESD protection............................................................................................................... 8

ESD field service kit ..................................................................................................................................................... 8

Transporting sensitive components.......................................................................................................................... 9

Turning off your computer.............................................................................................................................................. 10

Turning off your - Windows....................................................................................................................................10

Turning off your computer - Windows 7............................................................................................................. 10

Before working inside your computer........................................................................................................................... 10

After working inside your computer...............................................................................................................................11

Chapter 2: Technology and components.......................................................................................12

Using your computer......................................................................................................................................................... 13

Open the LCD Lid.........................................................................................................................................................13

Stealth mode................................................................................................................................................................. 13

Using the backlit keyboard.........................................................................................................................................14

Enabling and disabling the wireless (WiFi) feature.............................................................................................. 16

Hot key definition......................................................................................................................................................... 16

AC-DC Adapters................................................................................................................................................................. 17

90W................................................................................................................................................................................. 18

130W................................................................................................................................................................................19

LED and Cable..............................................................................................................................................................20

Battery.................................................................................................................................................................................. 21

Battery Specifications.................................................................................................................................................21

Processors........................................................................................................................................................................... 21

Skylake processor........................................................................................................................................................22

Kaby Lake - 7th and 8th Generation Intel Core processors...........................................................................24

Memory features............................................................................................................................................................... 24

DDR4.............................................................................................................................................................................. 24

Graphics options................................................................................................................................................................26

Graphics Specifications..............................................................................................................................................26

AMD Radeon 540 Graphics....................................................................................................................................... 31

AMD Radeon RX 540 Graphics.................................................................................................................................31

Corning Gorilla Glass.........................................................................................................................................................32

Benefits..........................................................................................................................................................................32

Pen Usage........................................................................................................................................................................... 34

Pen Flicks...................................................................................................................................................................... 35

Optical Disk Drive.............................................................................................................................................................. 36

DVDRW.......................................................................................................................................................................... 36

Blue Ray......................................................................................................................................................................... 37

Media Card Readers......................................................................................................................................................... 38

UEFI BIOS........................................................................................................................................................................... 39

Systems management - From on-premises to the cloud ............................................................................. 40

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