Acer TravelMate 5600: Your Acer notebook tour

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Your Acer notebook tour

After setting up your computer as illustrated in the Just for Starters... poster,

let us show you around your new Acer notebook.

Front view

# Icon Item Description

1 Display screen Also called Liquid-Crystal Display (LCD),

displays computer output.

2 Status indicators Light-Emitting Diodes (LEDs) that light up to

show the status of the computer's functions

and components.

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# Icon Item Description

3 Wireless

Enable/disables the wireless function.

communication

Indicates the status of wireless LAN

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button

communication.

4Bluetooth

Enable/disables the Bluetooth function.

communication

Indicates the status of Bluetooth

button

communication.

5 Microphone Internal microphone for sound recording.

6 Touchpad Touch-sensitive pointing device which

functions like a computer mouse.

7 Click buttons (left,

The left and right buttons function like the

center and right)

left and right mouse buttons; the center

button serves as a 4-way scroll button.

8 Power indicator Indicates the computer's power status.

9 Battery indicator Indicates the computer's batttery status.

10 Bluetooth

Indicates the status of Bluetooth

communication

communication.

indicator

11 Wireless

Indicates the status of wireless LAN

communication

communication.

indicator

12 Palmrest Comfortable support area for your hands

when you use the computer.

13 Keyboard For entering data into your computer.

14 Power button Turns the computer on and off.

15 Easy-launch

Buttons for launching frequently used

buttons

programs. See "Easy-launch buttons" on

page 22 for more details.

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Closed front view

# Icon Item Description

1 Speakers Left and right speakers deliver stereo

audio output.

2 Line-in jack Accepts audio line-in devices (e.g., audio

CD player, stereo walkman).

3 Microphone-in jack Accepts input from external

microphones.

4 Headphones/speaker/

Connects to audio line-out devices (e.g.,

line-out jack with

speakers, headphones).

S/PDIF support

5 Latch Locks and releases the lid.

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Left view

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# Icon Item Description

1 Kensington lock

Connects to a Kensington-compatible

slot

computer security lock.

2 Optical drive Internal optical drive; accepts CDs or DVDs

(slot-load or tray-load depending on model).

3 Optical disk access

Lights up when the optical drive is active

indicator

(location depends on model).

4 Optical drive eject

Ejects the optical disk from the drive

button

(location depends on model).

5 Emergency eject

Ejects the optical drive tray when the

hole

computer is turned off

(location depends on model).

Right view

# Icon Item Description

1 PC Card slot eject

Ejects the PC Card from the slot.

button

2 PC Card slot Accepts one Type II PC Card.

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# Icon Item Description

3 Three USB 2.0

Connect to USB 2.0 devices (e.g., USB mouse,

ports

USB camera).

4 Ventilation slots Enable the computer to stay cool, even after

prolonged use.

5 DC-in jack Connects to an AC adapter.

Rear view

# Icon Item Description

1 Two USB 2.0 port Connects to USB 2.0 devices (e.g., USB

mouse, USB camera).

2 External display

Connects to a display device (e.g., external

(VGA) port

monitor, LCD projector).

3 Modem (RJ-11) port Connects to a phone line.

4 Ethernet (RJ-45)

Connects to an Ethernet 10/100-based

port

network.

5 Battery Powers the computer.