program of your choice. All of the Easy-launch buttons can be reconfigured to your liking with Acer’s Launch Manager software.
As with most notebook keyboards, engaging the <Num Lock> key or pressing the <Fn> + <F11> keys changes the keys to on the right-hand side of the keyboard to a numeric keypad for numeric data entry. The <Fn> (function) key used in combination with specifically-labeled keys perform the usual shift-key functions from blanking and toggling screens when a monitor is connected, to putting the notebook in sleep mode, adjusting the volume of the speakers and toggling the touchpad on and off. The keys are just the right size and have a firm, but quiet touch. The slightly curved ergonomic layout of the keyboard will probably require a brief period of adjustment to get used to. If your local retailer carries the Acer Ferrari 4000 or other Acer notebooks that have the same keyboard—some of the Acer Travelmate 3000 and 4000-series notebooks do—I’d recommend trying it out in a store first to make sure that you like it, before making a commitment. The generous-sized touchpad with its 4-wayscroll-button is the fastest, most responsive I’ve ever used on a notebook, requiring only the lightest of touches without any skipping or lagging.
This is the Acer | Acer's eRecovery | This is the eRecovery | Here you can restore | Remember the |
Ferrari 4000's boot | loads from a special | Main Menu, which | the Factory Default | password you typed |
screen. Pressing | hidden factory | uses the arrow keys | Image, which resides | in earlier? Here's |
<F2> here will take | partition. Type in the | for navigation. Press | on eRecovery's | where you change |
you straight into the | password (six zeroes | <Enter> to select the | hidden partition, and | it... |
BIOS; Hitting | by default, which can | highlighted System | will erase everything | |
<Alt><F10> will take | be changed) and | Recovery option. | on the hard drive and | |
you into Acer's | press <Enter> | | restore the Ferrari | |
eRecovery System. | | | 4000 to its brand new | |
Let's take a look. | | | out-of-the-box | |
| | | condition. You can | |
| | | also restore the | |
| | | laptop from an image | |
| | | created on CD or DVD | |
| | | media with eRecovery | |
| | | under Windows XP. | |
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