Ten Netbook Accessories 3

4. TV Express Card

“AVerTV Hybrid Express represents the latest TV watching experience since it includes a worldwide Analog, DVB-T, and FM radio broadcasting receiver with ExpressCard interface solution”

AVER Media has a TV Card Express Tuner that, in combination with the Express Card slot on newer model netbooks, brings digital television and FM Radio to the screen for a price around $150.

3. SSD Drive

“Why wait for a traditional hard disk drive to spin up? Intel solid-state drives have no moving parts, resulting in a quiet, cool, highly rugged storage solution.. Higher performance with more durability means you can be truly mobile with confidence”

Intel’s solid state drives offer 3 times the performance and a fifth of the energy consumption as the discs that go spin. Laptop.com did an excellent comparison benchmarking a Lenovo S10 with a stock drive vs. one with an Intel X25-M. The bad news is these devices aren’t cheap (Intel’s X25-M is still over $400) and installing potentially voids your netbook warranty, but these drives are fast and and easy to install. Check out the OS start up time on these bad boys:

Windows on the S10e with an X-25-M SSD

OS X on the S10 with an X-25 M SSD

2. Touch Screen Kit

FidoHub has introduced this exciting product to the market, a 10.2″ Lenovo Screen Mod, that when installed, can be fully a functioning and completely Solderless touch Screen Kit. Again, you’re putting the Lenovo warranty at sure risk and ordering a retrofit kit on ebay from overseas, but the end product is pretty cool. The guys over at Brain Dump have taken the leap and finished the S10 mod themselves.