Laptop Accessories

This first post (first with any worthwhile information) is about laptops. To be more specific, it is regarding how much you can improve your mobile computing experience by using accessories. Most laptops come built with a keyboard and a touchpad, however the keyboard is usually too small and typing can be an awkward business with you trying to type in the way familiar to you on a standard keyboard and hitting all the wrong keys as a consequence. similarly, using the touchpad is quite a task as you often move over objects that you wish to go to as a result of not being adjusted to the sensitivity of the touchpad. Well worry no more! because while it is not I who has had this ingenious idea to make portable keyboards and mice for use with laptops (and for other devices as well: notebooks, smart phones, PDAs, etc), it is still a brilliant idea. To be able to carry a foldable keyboard or a really small mouse in your laptop's carrying case makes life so much easier than having to haul a full size keyboard and mouse (well not so much the mouse) with you. Similarly, while most laptops do come with wireless (more and more often wi-fi) and wired networking capabilities, there are few that have EDGE or GPRS capabilities so if you are stuck somewhere which does not have wireless or wired Internet, you can always connect to the net with your EDGE card! Just stick it into your laptop's PC card slot and you're good to go (though you'll usually have to install some software that comes along with the card in a CD). While EDGE is not amazingly fast, it can still provide speeds of up to 240 Kbps, this translates to 30 KBps. Other accessories for your laptop would include spare batteries, travel chargers, carrying cases, styli (for the odd person who has a touchscreen laptop), extra storage, etc.

These accessories are available for almost all laptop manufacturers including: Acer, Averatec, BenQ, Canon, Dell, Fujitsu, Gateway, Hitachi, HP, iBooks by Apple, JVC, Mitsubishi, NEC, Nikon, Sony, Toshiba, Trigem, Viewsonic, WinBook, etc.