It is equipped with a 1.44MB high-density PC type 3.5" floppy disk drive. It reads and writes PC discs without conversion programs.
The operating system, called Rosanne, no longer uses a command prompt but has a true graphical user interface written by Creative Technology. It makes use of the included 3-button mouse. See: [http://toastytech.com/guis/pcw.html Amstrad PcW16 GUI screenshots]
The resolution is now 640x480 instead of 720x256 for the other PCW machines.See: [http://toastytech.com/guis/pcw.html Amstrad PcW16 GUI screenshots]
Memory is 1MB of RAM, and 1MB of Flash which contains the BIOS, Rosanne, and the built-in software: a word processor, spreadsheet, address book, diary/alarm, calculator and file manager.