UK Netbook Review

Despite the plethora of netbook accessories out there – mostly in the form of cases and covers, there isn’t much in the way of stands for your netbook. Well, Kathleen Henri at Instructables has you covered for less than L10 and a fun DIY project to boot. She’s posted d a tutorial at Instructables for building a nice looking netbook stand (7″-10″ screens only) using some uncoventional parts to be found at your local Ikea (Ikea hacking anyone?).

Want to watch television on your netbook?  Well, PCTV’s latest offering is perfect for you.  The picoStick, launched at PlayBite 2009 in London today, is being billed as the world’s smallest DVB-T tuner, requires no antenna, costs £59 (about  and should be available from Amazon.co.uk next week.  It’s a device that’s clearly aimed at netbook [...]

For all of you netbook owners that had a particularly hard time giving up your DVD burner, here is the solution.   A company called Century has come up with a netbook stand that includes as a DVD super multi drive.
The, until now, Japan only device supports DVD±R/+RW (8x), DVD±R DL/-RW (6x), DVD-RAM (5x) and [...]

What follows is a sampling of six cases that are now available for smaller systems. We’ve arranged them in price order, from about $25 (for sleeves that offer protection and perhaps some space for a couple of accessories, but not much more) to $120 (for bags that offer space for your netbook, your media player, your wallet, your extra drive, your water bottle and whatever else you need to carry along).