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The bottom

In the top of the picture we have the battery, with the RAM modules just below. At the right we find the hard drive, and the small lid to the left of it covers an extra PCIe Mini Card slot to connect another piece of hardware.

The right side

From the left we have two USB 2.0 ports followed by the optical drive. After that, AC-in for the power supply and lastly the Kensington lock slot.

The left side

From the left we have the RJ-45 port for Ethernet LAN, followed by a vent. After that we have a docking connector (EasyPort IV), VGA output, 2x USB 2.0 and finally the sound in- and output jacks.

Buttons/Diodes

The notebook has four buttons above the keyboard. The first (de)activates the wireless network adapter, the second starts up Acer Backup Manager, the third starts up Acer PowerSmart Manager and the fourth and final is the power button. At the right of the keyboard is another button that pushes the CD tray out of the optical drive.

The four buttons are lit with blue and orange colours when activated. As mentioned previously, there is a diode at the front lighting orange when the power supply is connected. At the left of the buttons are three smaller diodes indicating hard drive activity, numlock status and capslock status respectively.

Keyboard and touchpad

The keyboard works really well and is pretty good to type with after you get used to the flat design. The arrow keys are small but not excessively so. Towards the right we have the numpad, which is quite handy when working with numbers.

The touchpad responds quite well and provides sufficient space for your fingers to glide around. Between the left and right mouse buttons we have the fingerprint reader. At the right of the touchpad is a button to deactivate the touchpad.

Display

The computer has a 15.6 inch HD LED LCD display with an aspect ratio of 16:9. It runs a WXGA resolution, corresponding to 1366 x 768 pixels. There are 10 levels of brightness which can be adjusted via the FN shortcuts. The panel itself is from LG. The backlighting is homogenous, meaning the light is evenly distributed across the display.

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