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Acer TravelMate C111Tci Tablet PC Review (page 3)

Category: Mobile

by Galina Sudareva

[ 04/30/2004 | 12:11 PM ]

Our Acer C111TCi had only one speaker (but the manufacturer claimed there should have been two of them!) at the edge of the front panel.

The notebook keyboard looks somewhat like a full-size PC keyboard with the block of numerical keys, arrow keys, and twelve functional keys. In fact, it is easy-to-use and functional. The touchpad (a sensor panel that feels your touches on its surface) has an additional cursor scroll button and is a replacement for the ordinary mouse.

The front panel of the notebook contains only a port of the infrared module and an integrated microphone – both are designed in a metal insertion with the device model name specified.

The left side of the notebook has a button for locking the lid and a socket for the network cable.

The right panel of the Acer C111TCi is where you attach most of the peripherals: PC Card slot (PCMCIA), power on/off button, line-in and line-out jacks, two USB ports and one IEEE1394 port (these are protected with a rubber cover). The placement of the ports is not quite convenient: the devices have to lie on each other when you use them simultaneously (if the cable length is short as you can see by the example of the DVD/CD-RW drive and the floppy-drive, accompanying the notebook).

The back panel carries the Kensington lock, a replicator port, a phone cable (RJ-11) and network (RJ-45) connectors, and a monitor output.

The bottom panel has vent holes, a battery bay, a pocket for the personal card, a bracket for the bay with the system RAM and hard disk drive.