The keyboard and mouse are all flush to the surface, and with it's large size it feels like a keyboard on a desk as there is ample room for wrist support. The keyboard feels no different to a high quality desktop keyboard and it is excellent for both gaming and typing. The mouse is slightly off center which at first caused a little disorientation when it came to typing, but this soon went away. As well as the standard keys, using the function button you can change volume, brightness and speed settings. There are also buttons for multimedia playback. We were disappointed there was no physical volume switch as this can come in handy for turning volume off before booting up, to save embarrassing situations on trains.

The Buccaneer M looks just as nice shut, measuring in at 27cm width, 35cm length and 4cm height.

Connectivity comes in the form of 4 USB 2.0 ports, 4-pin firewire, 100MBit Ethernet, 54MBit Wireless, 56k Modem, IR, SD Reader and one PCMCIA slot. Considering how much is on board, 1 PCMCIA slot is more than enough. D-Sub and TV-Out are also supported for extra displays and a parallel port is included for any legacy devices.

Along with these wonderful visuals come 4 speaker surround sound. The quality of these speakers are pretty good, especially for their size but the surround sound feature is hard to notice. Disappointingly, there is only a stereo jack out, so you couldn't dock with a set of 4.1 speakers.

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