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Netbooks such as the Eee PC and Acer Aspire represent a whole new generation of equipment in the IT world. These small but powerful subnotebooks offer ultra-connectivity over WLAN, UMTS and Bluetooth, and are far more affordable than standard laptops.
Making a notebook as small and light as possible usually means leaving out the optical drive. If you want to access data, games or music on a CD or DVD, you are faced with a dilemma: you can either pack along an external optical drive and all the optical discs you think you might need-basically negating the major advantages of having a netbook-or do without optical media altogether.
Virtual CD eliminates this problem completely. On any device running Windows XP, Virtual CD can set up not only virtual CD/DVD drives but also a virtual burner, which lets you create new CDs and DVDs even when there is no optical drive.
Install Virtual CD on the netbook and use an external drive to create images of your optical discs.
simple
fast
all Virtual CD functions available
external drive required
Install Virtual CD on a PC, create your virtual images, and then use VCD's Smart Virtual CD feature to run the images on the netbook from a flash drive.
easy to integrate virtual CDs using Smart Virtual CD feature
no disk space used
no external drive required
no support for burning new virtual CDs
This method combines the best of both worlds. Install Virtual on CD both the netbook and on a PC that has a CD/DVD drive. Create your images on the PC, and then transfer them to the netbook; for example, over a network. Not only the virtual CDs, but all features of the Virtual CD program are available on the netbook with this method.
simple
no external drive required
all Virtual CD functions supported
