At the bottom of the front panel, under another cover, there are two more USB ports, an audio input, an audio output, and a 4-pin FireWire port.

The LCD display serves as an indicator that the system is turned on; the HDD activity indicator is missing. Don’t search for a bay to place your floppy drive in – the developers must have decided that no one used diskettes anymore.

The rear panel carries ports for connecting the E-bot to the outer world:

• A monitor connector;
• Two USB ports;
• One 6-pin FireWire port;
• An RJ-45 (network) connector;
• A connector for the power supply.

Besides these connectors there is also a ventilation grid, a padlock of the removable side panel, and two slits for the expansion slots originally filled with decorative covers.

The E-bot comes with a preinstalled combo-drive of the “slim” form-factor. This drive can read CDs and single-layer DVDs and can burn CD blanks at 1x-24x speeds.

The barebone is powered up by an external power supply which resembles those employed with notebooks, but smaller. The PSU can yield 200 watts of power, which is quite sufficient for all the components of a mini-computer like the E-bot. The power supply is cooled by a 20mm fan protected by a metal grid.