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.