Student Introductio

n to laptopsJim Moore

Laptop Basics

• Care of laptop• Power

switch/battery• Floppy drive• Mouse• Sound & Jacks• USB and Firewire• CD player & CDRW

Laptop Specs• 512mb of RAM, 40gb hard

drive• Modem, Ethernet• Windows XP, Virus protection• Office 2003, Mozilla

Memory Key (what is it ?)

Takes the place of a floppy drive. You can store papers, pictures, excel files, files downloaded from the internet. Files can move from one computer to the next.

Send a file to the memory key . . . .

Homeroom (what is it ?)

Is your personal network storage. You can store papers, pictures, excel files, files downloaded from the internet. Files can move from any computer to your homeroom space.

Copy a file to homeroom . . . .

Public_html (what is it ?)

Is your personal web space. You can share papers, pictures, excel files, other files with the world. Anyone can see the files in public_html.

Create your own public_html folder. . .

Application Demo

MozillaMicrosoft WordAcrobat - making PDF’sExcelPowerPointOther . . .

iTUNES

Downloading musicMaking CD’s