Lots of things piss me off about netbooks. Things like the cramped trackpad, the lack of USB ports and the occasionally shoddy cases, to name a few. Targus has come up with a netbook accessory kit which tries to fix all these shortcomings.
The kit, which includes a netbook carry case capable of holding a 10.2-inch computer, a USB mouse and a four-port USB hub, will be available through JB Hifi stores for just $55 from today. While it does nothing to solve my other problem with netbooks – their purposefully underwhelming processor – it’s a pretty solid option to make up for many netbooks’ shortcomings.
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Adriano Vittorio
Tuesday, July 14, 2009 at 2:51 PMawesome price…
SirMuffinMan
Tuesday, July 14, 2009 at 3:34 PMSlight grammatical error here: “they’re purposefully underwhelming processor”.
I bought a small netbook toolkit (a Road Warrior kit!) about 8 months ago from Zazz, which has a mouse, hub, 5-in-1 USB connector (mini-USB, type A, type B, etc), numpad and extendable ethernet cable for significantly cheaper than the Targus one. Mind, the build quality is noticeably shonky, I had to solder the wires on the mouse just to make it useable, but this just seems like a shameless way to rip people off.
Michael Schriner
Saturday, July 25, 2009 at 12:21 AMAnother problem with netbooks is that they run to hot. We just designed a new product called the Netbook Riser to raise the Netbook to increase ventilation and to improve the viewing angle.