'For the reviewer at Laptop Magazine the best thing about the notebook is its LED-backlit XBrite-DuraView screen which turned out to be extremely vibrant and and had excellent viewing angles.'
'performance serious road warriors demand'
'Excellent screen colour and vibrancy • Keyboard is excellent to type on • Stamina/Speed modes let you choose between performance or battery power.'
'The whole laptop is very solidly constructed and generally looks great.'
'It might be external but Acer has at least given it a really cool design in keeping with the rest of the notebook – it has angular buttons and a red streak down the side – it looks like Darth Vader's personal external DVD-ROM drive - and that's a good thing.'
'Two batteries come standard, and you'll need both, as the 22-Wh (3-cell) standard battery lasted only a miserable 1 hour 20 minutes on MobileMark 2005 tests.'