Accessories and upgrades

Netbooks are meant for life on the go, being light and portable, thus easy to grab along. However, when you reach your home, you might want to use them at your desk and the best and most comfortable way to do that is to connect them to a docking station. Simply because this way you [...]...

TigerDirect.com is selling netbooks accessories from Acer in a single kit that only costs $79.97 (there’s also $99). The kit includes a netbook sleeve that can hold an 8″ or 10″, a wireless mouse and an external optical drive. The package is selling like hotcakes since the last tim...

Like what we’ve been telling all the time, one of the things that separate netbooks from Desktops and Laptops is the ability to play or burn optical discs because it doesn’t include the optical drive. It was not included in a netbook package to simply lessen the weight and of course the ...

Brando is showing 2 new models of Buffalo External Portable Drives dubbed as MiniStation and MiniStationLite. The MiniStation is available in 320GB and 500GB which costs $108 and $149 respectively. It also comes in 3 different colors; red, black and white. The MiniStationLite comes in 250GB, 320GB a...

One of the newest items in Brando’s long list of USB memories is the Buffalo Microstation Portable. It’s a multi-level cell (MLC) flash storage that gives you the capacity to automatically backup some of your files via integrated portable software. It comes with portable version of Firef...

Netbooks nowadays have better sound quality and loudness. And while sound is not very vital on netbooks, somewhere out there, we still need some oomph when it comes to sound. And here’s the uBoom, a speaker thing that can boost your netbooks singing talent. It weighs 3kgs, which is pretty much...

I used to bring my netbook to the office before so I can do some personal internet visits during break times. But for months I can’t bring my netbook anymore due to some Security restrictions in the workplace. And when I saw this new idea for a netbook case, I’m thinking of making one as...

We know that there’s already cool netbook docking station with additional USB ports and HDD enclosure but this one is cooler. Marshal, a Japanese company, is announcing their newest product designed for netbooks or laptops. It is basically a docking station that acts as a DVD drive. It also sp...

There’s a gadget madness in Glorietta when I pass by yesterday. Several electronic retail stores participated including Electroworld, Silicon, Villman and Accent Micro.I happened to check out Accent Micro’s booth and asked about the 1005HA Seashell but they have no idea yet when it’...

We all know that one of the things that separate netbooks apart from regular laptops is the lack of optical disc drive. Though some netbooks like the EEE PC 1004DN already has. Now the main disadvantage of missing an optical drive is the ease of installing operating systems that are only available o...