How To Make Your Netbook Run Like A Mini Laptops

The common grouses of having a netbook is that the battery life is short, the storage capacity isn’t enough and it lacks in processing power. Here are some ways how you can optimise the performance of your netbook and make it run as powerful as a mini laptops.

1. Extend the battery life
How? Do this by reducing the brightness of the screen, as far as you can go without straining your eyes, for it is certainly not advisable to go blind just to have a longer battery life!

Setting the brightness of mini laptops at its max can consume as much as 43% more power.

Also, turn off the wifi and Bluetooth whenever it is not in use. You might also want to get an external power pack, which is one of those bigger netbook batteries that stay charged longer and can be used with other devices as well.

2. Get Internet on the go
Most netbooks or mini laptops don’t come with a built-in modem but there isn’t any reason why you should go about not having access to the Internet. Simply use your phone as a 3G modem. A Windows Mobile phone can be turned into a wifi hotspot. An iPhone 3G can also do the trick if you jailbreak it. What if you don’t have a smartphone? It is possible for regular phones to be “tethered”. Check with your service provider or Google for ways to do so.

3. Sync your files The netbook is commonly used as a secondary PC as it is easy to carry around. To enable it to have all the files that you need, you would have to sync the netbook with your desktop or notebook. Use applications such as Sugarsync, Dropbox or WIndows Live Sync to do this task. Depending on the application or system that you use, there might be charges.

4. Double your storage
No, you don’t have to lug around an external hard drive as most of us don’t do that with our notebooks as well. You can get memory cards with capacities of between 4 – 16 GB. If your mini laptops doesn’t have a slot for a memory card, either get an external one or easy, just get a pendrive!

The four steps above are ways how your netbook will serve you like a mini laptops.

With some little adjustments made, you will find that mini laptops serves you well too, if not as good. Not only that, it will be a ‘notebook’ that has a much lighter weight and ease of carrying around as well.