The black case makes the Travelmate 6465 appear very unostentatious, really business like. So, at least regarding appearance it can close the competitive gap to renowned business machines.

The case is clearly robuster than those of customary Travelmates. Still, some deflections are possible under pressure, and also the flexural rigidity of the case could still be improved.

We were very pleased that the Acer typical weakness, a transverse joint above the keyboard, is only visible, but no longer statically effective. The Travelmate 6465's base unit is continuous in this region.

The flexural rigidity of the display is also clearly better than those of other Acer notebooks. In fact, we were still not completely satisfied, but the light clam-shell design of the display is effective. Furthermore, the display can be locked by a ramshorn hook, which appears to be very robust.

Also the display hinges are slightly bigger and seem to be robuster and more durable. We could not detect any excessive see-saw.

The provided ports of the Acer Travelmates 6465 are partly at the left side of the case and partly at its backside. The right side is, besides a USB 2.0 port near the back, free of ports. Typical Acer: the audio ports are in the center of the front edge.

At the left side near the front are, furthermore, the card slots and a SD card reader. This is locked by a plastic dummy, which prevents loosing it by  attached straps.

Of course we also verified the efficiency of this plastic dummy. Whilst it was easy to take it out, we had big problems to put it back it. Even an Acer technician needed some time of hard work for it and his pert comment was: "That s....!"

As required for a business notebook, the  Acer Travelmate 6465 is equipped with a first-class processor, an Intel Core 2 Duo CPU. The reviewed notebook provided a T7200 CPU with 2.0 Ghz and 4MB L2 Cache.

Furthermore, the Travelmate 6465 is equipped with an independent video card, a X1300 with 128MB video memory (up to 512MB hyper-memory) by ATI. Furthermore, it provides a total of 2GB main memory and a 160GB hard disk.

Therefore, this notebook is in total very well equipped, so, neither Windows nor office applications should cause any problems. Presumably, only the X1300 could limit the use for 3D applications. However, considering the Travelmate 6465 is an office notebook, the choice of the video card is alright.

Further information about the video card can be found here or in our comparison of mobile video cards. Detailed information about the Core 2 Duo CPU can be found here.

Please also look at our benchmark list of mobile processors or at our benchmark list of mobile video cards, in order to compare this notebook to other configurations.

The upper side does hardly noticeably get warmer. At the bottom side the temperature increased up to estimated 40°C, which is still alright.
Furthermore, we noticed that the fan ran even in idle mode at low revs, however, there was hardly any waste heat emitted with the air flow.

Two different battery models (6 and 8 cells) are available for this notebook.  We estimate that the maximum runtime is about 3 hours, depending on the chosen battery type and the selected energy saving profile. Furthermore, the optical drive can be replaced by an additional battery (Acer Media Bay), which is capable to further increase the battery runtime.