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Above the standard 84-key notebook keyboard are 4 double function shortcut buttons that can either be used for multimedia control or as program shortcuts. Their function is toggled by a button to their right with an LED indicator light to let you know what their current function is. To the left of the shortcut buttons are all the LED indicator lights to let you know what’s going on with battery/power status, as well as hard drive activity and the usual Caps/Num/Scroll lock functions. Surrounding all these lights and shortcut buttons are the built-in stereo speakers, that give quite good sound providing you don’t push them too loud, as they can start to distort when the volumes gets a bit too high. To accompany the stereo speakers are stereo microphone receivers at the top of the screen.
Power saving and long battery seems to have been a very important design consideration with the S6311, it’s 6-cell battery is extremely powerful with 5200mAh and can power the notebook for a massive 5 hours in ideal conditions (i.e. low screen brightness, no wireless, no CD-ROM usage etc...) but even with average use and most things turned on it will still easily last 3 hours or more. However with intense usage on a computer with this much power, you must realise the battery can and will drain rather quickly. As a neat feature the status LEDs on top of the keyboard go to half brightness when running on battery power to conserve energy.
The Dual Layer DVD drive included with the S6311 is nothing special in itself, but it is installed in a hot-swappable component bay, and can be swapped out for other devices, such as a second hard drive or battery without turning off the notebook, certainly handy if you’re out on the road, unfortunately neither a second hard drive bay or second battery are included as standard.
