Toshiba S50t User Manual

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For more information regarding Hard Disk Drive (HDD) Capacity, please
refer to the 
 section.
RTC battery
The internal RTC battery backs up the Real Time
Clock (RTC) and calendar.
Video RAM
The memory in a computer's graphics adaptor,
used to store the image displayed on a bitmap
display.
The amount of Video RAM available is
dependent on the computer's system memory.
Desktop -> Desktop Assist (in taskbar) ->
Control Panel -> Appearance and 
Personalization -> Display -> Adjust 
resolution
.
The amount of Video RAM can be verified by
clicking the Advanced settings button in the
Screen Resolution window.
Legal Footnote (Memory (Main System))
For more information regarding Memory (Main System), please refer to the
 section.
Display controller
The display controller interprets software
commands into hardware commands that turn
particular parts on the screen on or off.
The display controller also controls the video
mode and uses industry standard rules to govern
the screen resolution and the maximum number
of colors that can be displayed at a time.
Therefore, software written for a given video
mode will run on any computer that supports that
mode.
Legal Footnote (Graphics Processing Unit (GPU))
For more information regarding Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), please
refer to the 
 section.
Graphics Control
Some NVIDIA graphics models may include NVIDIA
®
 Optimus™
technology feature.
NVIDIA
®
 Optimus™ technology intelligently optimizes notebook
performance by seamlessly switching between a discrete NVIDIA GPU for
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