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The Hot Mini Laptop Accessories – Netbook (also called mini laptop) is famous for its small enough that you can take them with you wherever you go. Mini laptop, however, also lack many useful features that you’d normally find on a PC desktop.

Thankfully, along with the development of mini netbook, most of the netbook accessories are also available for purchase. Here are five great accessories that you need to attach to your mini laptop.

1. USB external DVD player and burner

The biggest losses from the mini laptops is that they have no optical drive. You cannot play your favorite CD or DVD, or install software from CDs, to them. Even more important is that it can be difficult to solve the problem or reinstall the operating system on your mini laptop without an external DVD player and burner. The best DVD drive that you can buy is those USB drives. Why? Because they do not require an electrical outlet to use it. You only need to plug one into a mini USB port of your laptop.

2. Flash memory card and flash disk

Except for the pricier and upper-class models, most mini laptop comes with limited memory. But you can always expand your storage with a memory card. Mini laptops usually have built-in memory card reader. Flash disks are also another important accessory for storing small files. Flash disk can typically store up to 2GB of data.

3. External USB Hard Drive

You will need an external hard drive when you’re dealing with large amounts of data, or if you need to back up your data. External hard drives are usually two inches thick and storing 120GB of data. With USB 2.0 interface, you will not need a power adapter to use an external hard drive; you just need to plug into a USB port.

4. Wireless Keyboard and Mouse

because the mini laptop has a small keyboard like, it can become very uncomfortable if you use it for a period of time. Often users often connect the mini laptop to an external keyboard and mouse.

5. Wireless Router

you will need a wireless router to connect your laptop to the internet mini when you’re at home.

What is a netbook?

By definition, a netbook is a light laptop, low price and compact size designed for those who want maximum mobility, staying connected to the Internet and perform basic tasks like word processing or spreadsheet processing. In everyday parlance, netbooks (mini notebook) are called ultraportables, subnotebooks, others prefer to use the term mini-notebooks, subnotebooks, or simply small, inexpensive laptops.

What is meant by the term netbook?

Many readers ask where it came from exactly and what does “netbook.” The term netbook refers to notebook (translated as notebook or notepad) from which it differs in emphasis, through the use of the word net, the appearance of “networking.” In summary netbook could translate as “notebook to the Internet.”
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We all know that HP bought Palm with the intention of launching products based on web OS, the Palm operating system that once was seen as a revolutionary, innovative and a real threat to the iPhone OS.

At that time, Palm was not going well economically, so they were sold and a company like HP could not afford to impersonate the blind eye.

Now with an official statement, HP has confirmed that they are preparing desktops and laptops with web OS, but who will take care of Palm development and manufacturing process of all devices with web OS.

However, the word remained in a “future”, so that we can not estimate when we will see the first web OS HP devices, although it would be very Read the rest of this entry »