New Toshiba Laptop All-day Battery Life, Thin Design.

As business travellers upgrade from their three year old mobile computer they're increasingly downsizing towards smaller, thinner and lighter laptops.

And whenever Australian Business Traveller takes to your skies we take note of what computers are being utilized in airport lounges and to the plane. There's no doubt that the older mid-sized laptops are making means for slimmer models, especially a 'thin and light' products which forego a CD/DVD commute.



And we're still seeing a good portion of the littlest laptops often known as 'netbooks', which were conceived for a low-cost model for college and uni students but have become a 'second PC' for many people users? including an appealing go-anywhere laptop for any small business set.

After all, most of the simplest business tasks you need to do on the road may be accomplished on a netbook? without the physical heft or high package price of a regular computer, and with added appeal such as a battery that'll run all day without recharging.

So while touch-screen drugs and ultra-thin laptops will continue to be the high-tech travel visitors of 2011, netbook are not about to disappear.

If anything, they're adding features and slicing the price tag. Toshiba's new NB500 series is a case in point.

The base model NB500 sells to have insane $399 but surfaces out at eight working hours of battery life, with a 10. 1 inch screen (making it a bit larger than an iPad's display) along with weighing around 1. 3kg.

At just $100 more, the $499 NB550 ups a ante with inbuilt Harman/Kardon sound system, a HDMI connector for hooking up to a desktop monitor or a good flat-screen TV and enable you to recharge your smartphone by using a powered USB socket regardless of whether the netbook is in sleep mode with the lid is closed. High quality battery for toshiba notebook computer that uses PA3356U-1BAS battery.

How to use all that in real life? You've got enough juice to work all the way from Sydney to Singapore, but with a notebook? sorry, 'netbook'? that'll barely make a dent in your carry-on travelling bag. Check into your hotel room, plug the NB550 into the powerpoint to charge the idea up overnight, and at the same time you can give your current BlackBerry or iPhone a top-up throughout the USB port.

If you've downloaded some video, the next night you can hook the NB550 up to your room's LCD TV to enjoy a movie on the big screen? or just play your favourite music in the peppy little top-firing speakers while you catch up on numerous reading.