Laptop Cooling Pad
There have been plenty of modern design advancements in laptop cooling technologies, with side vents, etc., used to ensure heat dissipation does not adversely affect the user. However, with a large portion of the laptops today, the discomfort, and dangers associated with using a laptop on a lap, or other insulated surfaces, still cannot be underestimated.

Therefore, laptop cooling pads remain a most essential accessory for laptops, required nearly at all times when using the laptop. A laptop does get heated up a lot while in use, where the CPU and the Hard Disks mainly generates lot of heat. Too much of heat causes instability, and the hard disk starts to stutter and induces a lag while playing video content.

The best, and most affordable laptop cooling pad is the Cooler Master Notepal series starting from Rs. 1,100.

Mice
While touchpads are getting better and better, there is nothing like using a mouse on a laptop, to navigate your way around your OS. The MX518 is a great option for both gamers and high-end multimedia users because it offers 5 programmable macro keys with left/right button action.

The design of the mouse is very ergonomic, and it fits in a medium size hand in both palm and claw grip.  The mouse itself is very lightweight, and so is easy to move around while playing games. MX518 supports 1800 dpi for precision and speed for only specific games and applications.

It is available for Rs. 1,450 approx.

Memory Card Reader
A memory card reader is an essential accessory for those who use SD/MMC cards on a regular basis, whether on their smartphones, cameras, or other such equipment. However, as most laptop manufactures provide only one SD/MMC card reader inbuilt, the necessity for the card reader is only when you need to use any another type of card that is not compatible with the inbuilt card reader of the laptop.

Memory cards such as microSD cards are sold separately with their own card reader, manufactured by Sandisk, Transcend or Kingston, available in different specifications depending upon the read and write speed of the memory cards used.


Hard Drives
The storage space is most essential, not just to store media, but also take critical data backups. We have numerous options nowadays to choose from, everything from SSDs to conventional HDDs.

SSD are blazing fast drives used to store performance seeking data but with a very high price versus capacity ratio, making you pay a lot for each GB increase. A 60GB SSD costs around Rs. 6,000 whereas with conventional HDDs, a 1TB drive costs approximately Rs. 2,400.

Most SSD drives are available in 1.8-inch, and 2.5-inch form factors, and can be easily fitted to most laptops. However, one should definitely check which size your laptop supports before you buy an expensive SSD.

SSDs are available in 60GB, 80GB, 120/128 GB, 240 GB storage size. Conventional hard disk drives are also available in 2.5-inch form factors for laptops. Sizes available start from 80GB, 160GB, 250GB, 500GB, to 750GB. Note, different speeds of conventional hard drives can be bought, from 5,400 RPM, variable, to 7,200 RPM.