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all right so this is an Olympic model from Easter I actually don't know what is special about it except that it does have the Olympic rings on it okay and it is a special limited edition for the Vancouver 2010 Olympics and since I'm here in Vancouver obviously that's something that's really really going on in this city right now lots of buzz so it has Windows 7 home premium this is considered more like a netbook class computer because it's got a seller on and it's an 11.6 inch has 2 gigs of memory a 250 gig hard drive wireless n Bluetooth and a 6 cell battery now it's not super powerful and that's why I would consider it more like a netbook but you're gonna be looking at a 6 cell battery with a relatively low power computer so you should get an awful lot about re life out of it now this is an open box model cuz I didn't really want to open up a new one when we had an open box one anyway but what is that what is the model of this eyes the Aspire 1410 so let's have a look at this guy here so there's your Olympic rings just like that so Acer is a worldwide partner as they are so kindly mentioned for us there's your logo there let's have a look at the underside of this particular notebook okay yeah that's fine alright so you've got the little ventilation holes that you can see some of the components inside I think that's our network card and there's some RAM okay and then your hard drive is in here so you've got an easily replaceable hard drive I really like to see that and yeah actually this is labeled to RAM and network so it looks like I was right about what I was able to see through there the battery slips in through the back this is something a sirs been doing for a long time okay and before we open up the notebook why don't we go ahead and have a look at what if anything is included with it so you've got a warranty sheet okay you've got a passport oh this is an international travelers warranty very good so Acer does have an international warranty that's very nice just for starters okay so this is a QuickStart guide that shows you that as soon as you open the box the notebook and documentation will jump out actually that's not what happens I'm kidding it just shows you you should take everything out of the box plug in the battery plug it into the wall in order to charge the battery and then register your warranty on registration day sir calm okay that's great next we have an addendum so this says please use e recovery to recover your computer systems your general okay great and then we find the AC adapter which I mean this is okay this is where you really start to be able to tell without even turning it on or testing anything whether a notebook is going to draw a lot of power just a little bit you can see this is a tiny tiny AC adapter so we expect this notebook to draw very little power it's not much bigger than the ones you'd see on a typical netbook no okay then we have the six cell battery itself so why don't we clip that in and I'm not actually sure if this thing is gonna boot up but I guess it might so we could have a quick look at boot time if nothing else on this quick unboxing I could get to slide in there there we go and lock that into place and here we go so here is the notebook itself let's make some room on the table so it's got a chiclet style keyboard which a lot of people really like and then it's got kind of a brushed finish to the front of it actually oh this is this is pretty nice you can see there's actually very little flex in the keyboard and in the chassis itself which is I mean something that people really take for granted because a notebook is not all about spec you're gonna be carrying it around you're gonna be you know tossing it on to the bed or you know when you get home or whatever throwing it in a backpack carrying it around with you whatever it is you need to do you need it to be pretty rugged and durable and that's something that acer has done incredibly well over the last few years I mean the last thing I want to see is when I'm using a touchpad and I press on it to click and the whole computer go like caves in right that's not it's not a pleasant user experience it looks like the battery wasn't charged because when I turned it on it promptly turned itself off but it has a glossy screen here and then it also has a webcam up at the top a microphone I'm not answering my phone right now Oh actually keyboard layout why don't we just talk about that and then I can finally call back whoever it is that is bothering me the keys are quite large actually I kind of like that that's pretty neat so it's quite comfortable for me to type on even with um even with my relative walk a relatively thick fingers but I do have small hands either way and I think that pretty much covers everything I wanted to say about the Aspire 1410 Olympic edition thank you for checking out my quick unboxing on my video blog so obviously there are some key things I missed in this video sorry I got a little distracted because someone kept calling me anyway the thickness is well under an inch which is really nice you've got an SDHC card reader here you've got headphones and microphone here a couple USB ports on this side Kensington lock and Gigabit Ethernet okay and then I'll show you the other side as well so I'll just kind of show you the side view here so on the other side you've got a VGA output which may seem a little bit unnecessary but if you're using this for business that is a key feature because many people have older projectors that you might have to use that would use VGA here is your power input and then you've got a little vent for the CPU fan HDMI out much more modern very happy to see that and one more USB port thank you for checking out my my video