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Design

The G53Jw-3DE is the smaller cousin to the G73; as such, it has the same stealth fighter-inspired thinkpad t400 battery design, only in a (relatively) less bulky package. At 15.6 x 11.9 x 0.8-2.1 inches, the G53Jw is about an inch smaller than the G73, though both Thinkpad T410 Battery are roughly the same thickness--2.1 inches. At 7.9 pounds, it's also about a pound lighter than the G73, but a pound and a half heavier than the Acer Aspire 5745DG. The G53Jw is even about half a pound heavier than the thinkpad t500 battery HP Envy 17.

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Design
The 532h is a bit of a departure from Acer’s previous 10.1-inch netbooks, the Aspire thinkpad t43 battery One D150 and D250. In fact, it looks more like Acer’s 11.6-inch netbook, the Aspire One 751h. Instead of a solid color, the lid of the Onyx Blue 3000 v100 battery 532h fades from a dark metallic blue to black. Other color options included Garnet Red and Silver Matrix. This treatment makes the netbook look much more refined. However, the glossy finish, which is also found beneath the keyboard, picks up fingerprints 3000 v200 battery quickly. There’s now a lot less room at the top of the deck; the keyboard is shoved right up to the top, and the power button is crammed in by 3000 n100 battery the left hinge.

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Heat
After playing a Hulu video at full screen for 15 minutes, the x200 battery touchpad on the 532h registered 92 degrees Fahrenheit, the space between the G and H keys was 91 degrees, and the middle of the underside reached 97 degrees. While we don’t consider any this heat to be troublesome, the temperature of 110 good battery degrees in the left front corner was a cause for concern.

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Design
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Instead of a traditional keyboard as on its older netbooks, the 532h has Acer’s FineTip keyboard,ibm akku which is completely flat on top, and has a slight space between each key. Also, it’s larger than when compared to older netbooks: whereas on the apple akku D250 there was approximately half an inch of space on either side of the keyboard, on the 532h there’s less than a quarter of an inch unused. While it looks identical to the layout on the 11.6-inch 751h, the 532’s keyboard is smaller and the keys have a shallow acer akku pitch to them, which made typing somewhat more difficult. We much prefer the keyboards on the ASUS Eee PC 1005PE-P (Seashell) and the Toshiba mini fushistu battery NB305, which have island-style layouts and more space between the keys.

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