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Acer TravelMate 6463WLMi Notebook: Performance and Security (page 5)

Category: Mobile

by Alexander Britvin

[ 05/28/2007 | 07:37 PM ]

The left side of the notebook offers the following components (from left to right):

• 4-pin IEEE1394 port (FireWire)
• Two USB 2.0 ports
• 26-pin ExpressCard/34 connector
• 5-in-1 card-reader (supports Memory Stick, Memory Stick Pro, MultiMediaCard, Secure Digital, xD-Picture Card)
• PC Card slot (for one card of type I or II) with a card eject button

• SmartCard slot

The right panel of the TravelMate 6463WLMi accommodates an optical drive with an activity indicator, a disc eject button, and an emergency ejection hole. There is also one USB 2.0 port here.

The notebook’s back panel offers the following:

• TV output (S-Video)
• Modem port (RJ-11)
• LAN port (RJ-45)
• COM port
• DVI-D connector
• 15-pin D-Sub connector
• Power connector
• Kensington lock

The TravelMate 6463WLMi comes with a 4800mAh battery shaped in Acer’s traditional way:

The following can be found on the bottom panel, besides the battery module: a lock of the optical drive bay, covers of the memory, WLAN and HDD compartments, Acer Disk Anti-Shock Protection to protect the hard disk, two battery latches (one for fixing it in the bay and another to extract it), a 124-pin Acer ezDock II/II+ connector for a docking station, stickers with model information and with the OS serial number.

There are two slots in the memory compartment. One slot is empty and another is occupied by a 512MB module. The maximum amount of system RAM supported is 4096MB.