Pink Laptop Buying Guide - Accessories

This is the part four of the pink laptop buying guide, and also the final part of the guide. If you haven't read about the previous guide yet, here are the links for the previous guides that will give you some basic knowledge that you should know before buying a laptop.

Pink Laptop Buying Guide - Overview
Pink Laptop Buying Guide - Portability
Pink Laptop Buying Guide - Spec

In this article we will talk about the accessories that you should get for you laptop. Assuming that you are already having a new fancy pink laptop in front of you, the next thing that you can do is to get some accessories for your laptop to increase its usability. Here are some suggestion for you to accessorize your laptop.

Docking Station
A docking station is an accessory that make it easy for you to connect your laptop to the network and any other PC peripherals. With a docking station at home or office, you can actually have the network cable, LCD monitor, keyboard, mouse and any other computer peripherals connected to it, and by attaching your pink laptop to the docking station, you will be able to use them as if they are connected directly to your laptop. It give you the convenience of keeping all the peripherals cables to stay connected to the docking station, while you walk away with your laptop. When you return, all you need to do is just attach you laptop back to the docking station, and you will again gain access to all the peripherals.

Laptop Bag
After spending about a thousand dollar for a cool pink laptop, getting a better laptop bag (in pink) is necessary. Many of the laptop bags that come with the original laptop manufacturer do not have enough internal pockets and padded shoulder strap. Furthermore, they do not looks cool, and most probably they are not pink in color. After spending all the amount of money to get a cool fancy pink laptop, you don't want to get a laptop bag that looks ugly and uncomfortable to carry. So look for a laptop bag that have a cool design with padded shoulder straps and enough compartments to keep your power adapters and other laptop accessories.

Laptop battery
An extra laptop battery is necessary if you know you are going to travel a lot with you laptop. A normal laptop battery will normally last for two to three hours. If you constantly need to work on your laptop during traveling, while you are away from the power supply, you wouldn't regret getting an extra laptop battery as backup. It will
cost you around 50 to 300 dollar, but it's well worth the money.

External Drive
An external drive can be an external hard drives, DVD/CD-RW, DVD-rewritable, or even a thumb \drive. It is strongly recommended that you get at least one of these as they will be in great help when you need to make a copy of backup data for yourself or to another party, such as your customer. It will cost you as low as $15 for a 1GB thumbdrive.

Keyboard and Mouse
An external keyboard and mouse is especially necessary for those with an ultraportable laptop. With the small keyboard and touch pad of the laptop, it will be much more comfortable when you have an ordinary size of mouse and keyboard that you use normally on your PC. Use them together with your docking station, so that you will only need to deal with the small keyboard and touchpad only when you are on a travel.

Besides the accessories that I mentioned in this article, there a certainly more accessories out there such as laptop cooler, speaker, etc. It will very much depends on personal needs. These are just a few laptop accessories that we think might be of interest to most of the laptop users out there. with this, it concludes the pink laptop buying guide, and feel free to drop any question in the comment section if you have any question.