A battery that maintains the time, date, hard disk and other configuration settings in the CMOS memory. CMOS batteries are small and are attached directly to the motherboard. See BIOS setup and batteries.
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- Blog posts 2008-08-27
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- Blog posts 2008-08-26
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- Is LogMeIn the route to laptop Linux?Linux is cheaper than WindowsAnd since they do the same thing, why not go with the cheaper option?And really you're right in that the other OS is more important to the end user. But as far as the sale of this "terminal", what it...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-26
- IDF and the new Mac notebooks
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- Blog posts 2008-08-25
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- Discussion threads 2008-08-25
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- Blog posts 2008-08-24
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- Discussion threads 2008-08-23
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- News items 2008-08-22
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- Software downloads 2008-08-22
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- Blog posts 2008-08-21
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- Videos 2008-08-21
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- Discussion threads 2008-08-21
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