Acer's new TravelMate laptop is a new release by the Taiwanese company,
which is solely designed with students in mind. This new notebook is
made for ultra-portability, which is great in the education industry.
The Windows 10 system is the first laptop made for classroom interaction
with its new LED light on the outside. The computer is a very portable
with a size of 11.6 inch and only 1.36 kg. It also has a HD camera and
HD screen for crisp and clear viewing. However, it isn't just for
students and classroom environment, as it can also be used in an office
setting for meetings.
The LED light on the back of the screen allows the teacher in schools or
the person in the board room to see the LED light change and know
without disruption that the student or board member has a question. The
laptop features sleek black color and is very trendy. It also has space
to store files. However, it is mostly designed for the cloud computing,
where teachers can use Acer's TeachSmart to distribute assignments and
material without actually needing to store the material on the laptop
itself. All in all, Acer is trying to revolutionize the school-learning
environment.
It has a double storage, and ram which enables it to be faster in using,
. The TravelMate B117-M/v5 offers silent operation, very long battery runtimes
The interfaces do not reveal any surprises. One of the two USB ports
supports the USB 3.0 standard. A video-out is present. The laptop does
not have a Type-C USB port. The installed memory-card reader is slow;
transferring 250 JPG image files (approx. 5 MB each) was performed at
24.2 MB/s. We tested the memory-card reader via a reference card
The TravelMate is furnished with a matte, 11.6-inch screen. It has a
native resolution of 1366x768 pixels. The brightness (214.9 cd/m²) is
too low, but the contrast (574:1) can be called satisfactory. Positive:
The screen never exhibited PWM flickering.