The chassis is large at 402 x 286 x 38.2mm and weighs in a 3.6Kg, which is heavy. But for that you’re rewarded with an impressive 17in widescreen display and a full size keyboard with a dedicated number pad on the right hand side, which is unusual in a notebook. Whether the latter is a good thing is debatable though, as it means that the main keyboard is shifted over to the left compared to the average notebook. Also to accommodate the number pad the arrow keys at the bottom right of the main keyboard have been shrunk, while the right shift key has been seriously shrunk down. Both of these I found quite irritating. I tend to use the right shift more frequently and as I type this review I keep missing the shift key, hitting the arrow key, causing the cursor to shift and type one the wrong line. As an alternative you can turn off Numlock off and use the arrow keys on the keypad on the right. Yet another gripe is that the delete key has been shunted off to the bottom right. I guess these idiosyncrasies are things that you'd get used to but it's not ideal. Beneath the keyboard is a trackpad, with Acer's directional pad between the mouse buttons, which is a handy tool for scrolling through documents and web pages.