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Wednesday, 03 February 2010 07:25 Mads D.

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The left side

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At the left we first have the DC-in jack, followed by 1x USB 2.0 port. Next we have another card reader – in addition to supporting the same formats as the other reader, this one also supports disk expansion modules.

Buttons/Diodes

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At the bottom of the display we first have a switch to power up/down the computer. At the right of it is another button that starts the so-called “TouchSuite”, which is done by pressing the button for a second. If you hold it down for three seconds, the screen rotates.

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The power button has a small, blue diode by its side, which lights up when the computer is on. In the opposite side of the display we have four other diodes, representing battery status, hard drive activity, WLAN status and Capslock.

Keyboard and Touchpad

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I personally find the physical keyboard slightly useless, since the keys are way too small. I keep hitting several keys at once and sometimes the wrong keys, and it is just not comfortable to work with. To properly use the keyboard you need to have relatively small fingers, and even then it still takes some getting used to if you usually work on a larger keyboard. I urge you to try out the keyboard yourself in a store or at a friend’s so you can determine whether it suits your needs.

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But in addition to the physical keyboard, you might also want to use Windows’ virtual keyboard as the device has a touch display. It works well enough when you just have to write a website or jot down something, but lengthier typing gets tedious as there is no place to rest your wrists. In addition to that, you can only press two keys simultaneously, due to hardware limitations of the display. Having said that, it is a very clever feature once you turn the display around.

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Lastly, the computer also features input via handwriting recognition. It works by writing on the display just as you would on paper, and then the computer recognises the letters of your handwriting and inserts them. This works really well in practice – it understands most of what I write, even though I can barely read it myself, and inserts it nicely on the screen. It is not as quick as using a standard keyboard, and you probably cannot uses it for longer texts, but it certainly works as it should!

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The touchpad also features multi-gesture technology, and can be used for scrolling and rotating e.g. pictures. It is quite responsive, and the mouse buttons work well too, despite being integrated into a single button. The “click” sound is slightly loud, but it is bearable.

The display
The display is an 8.9 incher and LED-backlit. It runs a native resolution of 1024 x 600px, corresponding to WSVGA. The display is also capable of running 1024 x 768px, though it pushes down the height. This resolution is required as a minimum for a fair amount of applications, so it is nice they included it. Too bad it still looks less than optimal.

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The computer’s backlighting is homogenous, meaning it is evenly distributed across the display. When you view the display from above it gets brighter, and dimmer if you view it from below (but the contrast between the colours really stands out). View it from the sides and the screen gets very sharp, although the brightness is reduced some.
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