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Two Office Notebooks: ASUS M6B00N and Acer TravelMate 803 LCi (page 4)

Category: Mobile

by Galina Sudareva

[ 08/31/2004 | 11:43 AM ]

The left panel of this notebook contains the following:

• Audio DJ on/off button (this feature allows playing Audio-CDs);
• Headphones output;
• Microphone input;
• A block of buttons for controlling CD playback (the Audio DJ feature can be used without starting the entire system up);
• A slot for PC cards type I or II;
• A flash card reader (SD, MMC, MS, MS Select, MS Pro);
• An IrDA port;
• One IEEE 1394 port;
• An integrated modem port (RJ-11);
• A LAN connector (RJ-45).

The right panel only contains a DVD-RW bay with an eject button, an emergency disc extraction hole, and a few vent holes.

The rear panel of the case has the following:

• Kensington lock;
• Power connector;
• 25-pin parallel port;
• Expansion port (to attach an additional external port replicator);
• D-Sub output to the external monitor;
• TV-Out port;
• Four USB ports.

At bottom of the ASUS M6B00N, there are hard disk drive and memory bays, an accumulator battery cell, a pocket for the owner’s personal card, two stereo speakers and vent holes. You also find an emergency shutdown hole here – it may help when Ctrl-Alt-Del does not work.

The following table compares the communicational capabilities of the two notebooks: