8. An Outside Look

On the bottom of the PaceBook, you will find three removable access doors. One access door allows access to the memory upgrade slot, another provides access to the hard drive, and the last one provides access to the BIOS battery. The memory is upgradeable, the hard drive is upgradeable, and the BIOS battery is user replaceable, as necessary. Also located on the bottom of the unit is the PaceBlade LI-ION battery. This six-cell battery operates at 10.8V, while providing 2800mAh. PaceBlade has informed us that they intend to offer more battery options that will have longer battery life at a later time.

Bottom of the unit with all covers removed.

With the unit sitting as a laptop in Landscape mode, on the left side you have the PCMCIA slot, RJ-45 network connector, the RJ-11 modem connector, monitor out connector, the round USB port and the stylus. The network interface card is a RealTek RTL8139, and the modem is a Lucent Soft Modem (software driven). The network, modem and monitor out connectors are covered with a flexible rubberized port cover.

The left side of the PaceBook has the PCMCIA slot, the network connector, the modem connector, the monitor out connector, the round USB port and the stylus.

On the top of the PaceBook is the 3.5 mm headphone jack, 3.5mm microphone jack, standard USB connector, DC-Out, the 4-pin 1394/FireWire connector, DC power connector, scroll wheel, and the programmable any-key; the USB port, the DC-Out and the 1394/FireWire connectors are all protected by a flexible, rubberized port cover. The only thing on the right-hand side is the IR receiver.

On the top you will notice the headphone jack, microphone jack, a standard USB connector, DC-Out, the 4-pin 1394 FireWire connector, the DC power connector, a scroll wheel and the programmable any-key.