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In place of a mouse, the Acer TravelMate … Acer TravelMate the sleep-function is activated when … The Acer TravelMate 737 TLV was the notebook in …

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The Acer notebook is a high-end device and is
designed to completely replace a desktop PC. This
means you get two big but discrete loudspeakers
which, when we listened carefully, we traced to a
site under the stylish hump on the lid. This means
the TravelMate produces sound for the person or
people sitting opposite very well and is therefore
ideal for presentations. One feature we liked on the
one hand but found irritating on the other is the TV
output. This is an SVHS-socket, designed to plug
into a modern television or video, except that under
Linux it would not work - irritating to say the least.
The notebook’s design is truly individual,
especially the hump already mentioned which is
located on the back of the 15-inch display. This
makes the notebook fairly distinctive. The disk
drive is permanently integrated into the
notebook and the 8x-DVD-ROM sits in a drive
slot and can be exchanged for a second battery,
an additional hard drive or a CD-ROM. The
facility for running drives externally is not
provided with this model.
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The cooling technology is of interest. Part of the
airflow is conducted to…