Scott Muellers Upgrading and Repairing Laptops, Second Edition

Index

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G.lite

game playing

    3D audio

         DirectX support 2nd

         positional audio

         processing 2nd

    sound cards

         3D audio 2nd 3rd 4th 5th

         connectors 2nd 3rd 4th

         data compression 2nd 3rd

         DirectX

         drivers 2nd

         quality factors 2nd 3rd 4th 5th

         speaker connections

         troubleshooting 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th 13th

         volume control 2nd

gaming laptops 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th

gas-plasma displays. [See plasma displays]

Gateway

     BIOS setup

     tech support 2nd 3rd

gateway (defined)

Gateway, Inc.

     contact information

Gavilan SC 2nd 3rd

gender (connectors)

General Packet Radio System (GPRS)

general-purpose diagnostic software 2nd

genlocking (defined)

geometry

Ghost utility program

GHz (gigahertz)

gibi (defined)

giga (defined)

Giga-Byte Technology

     contact information

gigahertz (GHz)

GlidePoint technology (Cirque)

Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM)

GlobalStar satellite phones 2nd

Golden Bow VOPT

GoOffice AutoExec with Non-Skid Top (A) AEF-01

Gourand shading 2nd

GPRS (General Packet Radio System)

GPS navigation system 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th

GPS receivers 2nd 3rd

graphic chip (video adapters) 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th 13th 14th 15th 16th 17th 18th 19th 20th 21st 22nd 23rd 24th 25th

graphics

    2D graphics

         video memory requirements

    3D graphics

         3D graphics accelerators 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th 13th 14th 15th 16th 17th 18th 19th 20th 21st 22nd 23rd 24th 25th 26th 27th 28th 29th

         alpha blending

         animation

         anisotropic filtering

         antialiasing

         bilinear filtering

         depth cueing

         displacement maps

         environment-based bump mapping

         flat shading

         fogging

         full-screen antialiasing

         geometry

         Gourand shading 2nd

         integrated transform and lighting

         MIP mapping 2nd

         perspective correction

         primitives

         programmable vertex and pixel shading

         rasterization

         scan conversion

         shading

         stencil buffering

         T-buffers

         texture mapping 2nd

         textures

         trilinear filtering

         vertex skinning

         vertices

         visible surface determination

         Z-buffering

     integrated graphics 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th

     laptops versus desktops 2nd 3rd

     upgrading graphics modules 2nd

graphics accelerator

graphics adapters. [See video adapters]

graphics formats

    BMP

         defined

Green Book

Green Book CD format

GRiD Compass 1100 2nd

GRiDCASE 1550sx 2nd 3rd

GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications)