'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.'
'Data ports are scarce, however: You get just network and modem jacks, a VGA port, two USB ports, a headphone port, and a single PC Card slot.'
'Add together the CD-ROM, floppy drive, docking unit and mains adaptor and you have three hardware extras to carry around in addition to the main unit.'