Dell LATITUDE C510 - Manual (Page 160)

G - gravity
A measurement of weight and force.
GB - gigabyte
A unit of data that equals 1024 MB (1,073,741,824 bytes) and measures drive storage capacity.
graphics mode - A video mode that can be defined as x horizontal pixels by y vertical pixels by z colors.
Graphics modes can display an unlimited variety of shapes and fonts.
H
hard drive - A drive that reads and writes data on a hard disk. The terms hard drive and hard disk are
often used interchangeably.
heat sink - A metal plate on some microprocessors that helps dissipate heat.
help file - A file that contains descriptive or instructional information about a product. Some help files are
associated with a particular program, such as Help in Windows. Other help files, such as this one for your
computer, function as stand-alone reference sources. Help files typically have a filename extension of .hlp or
.chm.
hibernate mode - A power management feature that saves everything in memory to a reserved space on
the hard drive, and then turns off the computer. When you restart the computer, the memory information
that was saved to the hard drive is automatically restored. Also referred to as suspend-to-disk mode.
Hz - hertz
A unit of frequency measurement that equals 1 cycle per second. Computers and electronic devices are often
measured in kilohertz (kHz), megahertz (MHz), gigahertz (GHz), or terahertz (THz).
I
IEEE 1394 - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.
A high performance serial bus used to connect IEEE 1394-compatible devices, such as digital cameras and
DVD players, to the computer.