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ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface): Toshiba, Intel and Microsoft jointly developed ACPI and Toshiba has incorporated it into their laptops. It is a dedicated system supported by Windows 98 and future versions of Windows NT to interface directly with the operating system and control all aspects of power management for the PC and peripheral devices. The user has easier, more flexible power management and better overall performance.

Active Matrix Display: Laptop display screen using (Thin Film Transistors) TFT transistors to individually activate each LCD pixel. By controlling the light passage through each pixel, this display type offers a permanent, well-contrasted and fast display, compared to other LCD displays. In fact the image is even better than with CRTs (desktop monitors), because the image is permanent instead of being refreshed continuously. TFT displays are brighter than passive matrix (dual scan) displays and don't show "ghosting" or "trails" off of a moving cursor. A type of flat-panel display in which the screen is refreshed (redrawn) more frequently than in conventional passive-matrix displays. The most common type of active-matrix display is based on a technology known as TFT (thin film transistor). The two terms, active matrix and TFT, are often used interchangeably. When viewed from an angle, active matrix screens produce a higher quality image than do dual scan screens. In addition, an active matrix screen is able to display moving video much better than a dual scan LCD. Active Matrix screens are available in nearly all sizes.

AGP(Advanced Graphics Port): A port dedicated to video data that runs twice as fast as the PCI bus. Allows large 3D graphics and DVD-ROM files to run more smoothly and quickly by taking the load off of the main processor. While few 3D applications other than games are currently available, many are in development. Allows enhanced video and 3D graphics performance. An expansion slot linked directly to the motherboard's system bus enabling high performance graphics. AGP graphics cards can access system memory directly as well as using their own video memory. 2x AGP has a peak transfer rate of 512 MBps (megabytes per second) while the latest 4x AGP runs at 1.1 GBps (gigabytes per second).

Application: A computer program dedicated to a particular job, such as a word processor, spreadsheet or database program.