'At a little more than 1 inch thick and weighing 3.6 pounds, it's certainly quite portable, but we've lately been spoiled by ultraportable laptops that break the 3-pound/1-inch barrier.'
'At a little more than 29mm thick and weighing 1.65kg, it's certainly quite portable, but we've lately been spoiled by ultraportable laptops that break the 1.3kg/25mm barrier.'
'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.'
