Five Essential Accessories for Computer Notebooks

Five Essential Accessories for Computer Notebooks

By Lynn Chan

A Good Notebook Bag

Forget those that are bundled with your computer notebooks. Get yourself a good computer notebooks bag that is well padded both on its load-bearing straps, and 100% around the notebook itself. Aren't all computer notebooks bags built the same?

Carry the bag with your computer notebooks in it. Note also how the computer notebooks bag opens up for main access. The zipper types have none, and your poor computer notebooks will get whacked full-force if the bag topples headlong off an airport luggage cart. Roller bags are also less taxing physically, and the generous compartments in the bag means less luggage pieces to carry while traveling.

A Heat Dissipating Cooler Or Pad

Heat is the number one computer notebooks killer. Today's computer notebooks are little thermal generators, with internal temperatures that rise up to 150 degrees even with built-in cooling fans.

So help out your hardest working computer notebooks component and extend its lifespan. Invest in a computer notebooks cooler or a cooling pad. Computer notebooks coolers typically are low-rise, plastic or metal-faced pedestals on which your computer notebooks sits. Usually efficient enough to drop up to 15 degrees the operating temperature, notebook coolers however require power for its fans and would typically draw its power off your computer notebook's USB ports. Despite the lack of fans, these cooling pads do a surprisingly good job of cooling your computer notebooks.

An Optical Mouse

Computer notebooks are normally equipped with touch pads, which can be awkward. There's no substitute for the mouse. Computer notebooks are predominantly used on a static, flat surface.

Optical mice traditionally had problems with glossy, transparent, or light-colored surfaces, but technology has advanced to a level that these problems are almost non-existent. You don't need extra equipment in your already overloaded and heavy computer notebooks bag!

A Multi-Device Charger And Power Adapter Combo

Computer notebooks do come with their own AC-to-DC power adapters, but computer notebookscomputer notebooks. It’s almost impossible to carry the charging devices of all these things. Do yourself a favor by getting a multi-device charging/power adapter. owners typically carry a cell phone, PDA and digital camera in addition to the

Built-In Wireless (Wifi) Connectivity Or PC Card

Computer notebooks owners are generally mobile information warriors. Instant access to the Internet's unlimited resources and communicative offerings are just a little electronic card away.

Plugging in a WiFi PC card means you can access the Web, read and send your emails, instant-message your colleagues, family, buddies, broadcast your vacation video/photos or company presentations, and retrieve company information on secure virtual private networks anywhere, anytime you are around a hotspot, in broadband speed.