It seems with all the ever increasing popularity with the mini laptop so called Eee PC whether from Asus, HP, or even Dell, most of it are with average or even mediocre features. While Eee PC most of the obvious features like small in size, light in weight, and with attached web camera, Eee PC basically just another shrunken laptop with an expensive price tag. So before we dive in and purchased a new Eee PC just to keep up with the Joneses, let be clear how a cool Eee PC should be and give value to your money.  Now lets talk about COOL THINGS TO MAKE Eee PC MORE DESIRABLE
MOBILITY
Mobility should be the core concept when buying the mini laptop. I believe strongly that any mini laptop’s features should revolve around this concept. It means that I can carry it around effortlessly, have a lot of built in customizable features and workable in any environment or situation or something in the line with Swiss Army knife. Although, some design bark on slimming the netbook, it is the weight that is the core thing. Slim netbook may be helpful to slip into a carrying bag but it is weight that will ease the school kid’s burden to lug around it and obvious reason to replace heavy textbooks.

POWER
Second cool thing is power. If you ever carry a laptop, you will know how frustrating it is to search for a power outlet when you want to open you laptop. Even more frustrating it is when it is consuming a lot juice and you need more time to finish your task. The straw that break the camel’s back, well the adapter is not suitable with the power outlet. The current technologies have not yet able to harness solar energy nor able to store it for long lasting period using any lightweight device. IMHO, the closes it gets is a 6 cell battery with 9-10 hours to boast although magnetic power plug or using induction concept may be so what near future incorporation into these netbooks design. That’ll be 4-5 years time before manufacturers iron out some kinks and work out some of its finer details. It will be even cooler if it can harness the kinetic energy during travel and recharge itself. It goes without saying, no juice no fun dude, not enough juice not enough fun.

Built and Design
It must be able to survive rough handling and transportation hazards for a lifetime. Well at least a limited lifetime if not too much. While it is heavy and cumbersome to lug around a power brick, it is worthwhile too to have a backlit and spill proof keyboard. It will be totally awesome if it could survive underwater depth. Another challenge will be to keep the weights off and improving durability.

ACCESSORIES
If Christmas was around the corner and I am sitting on Santa’s lap, here is my wish for my mini laptop.
Wireless USB. The technology is so real today yet it is so far from application into netbooks. Anything with a wire attached to it is a strict no-no in a mobile world.
Larger screen area: We never have enough screen real estate. Even in the heyday of laptop it is still small but we can still live with it. However, while still sitting on Santa’s lap, a built in projector will do nicely now.
Detachable mouse or keyboard: I hate touchpad.  Ever since they introduce touchpad to notebooks, I hate it. We buy it with the laptop but we seldom or never use it. Most of us have to buy a mouse to work on the laptop. It is quite silly but lets us not be bad here. Dear Santa, a detachable mouse or touchpad will be good.
Long battery life: I am not a worshipper of Apollo but until we can actually farm the sun’s energy, a longer battery life or shorter recharge time is mostly everybody’s wish. So its mine, so long live the batteries. Lets not harm mother nature anymore with cheap batteries some might squeak.
Built in scanner.
Yes, with the 10 inch casing it is time we consider a built in scanner to scan any letter size or A4 size documents or even start scanning textbooks into our laptop.

To conclude, I was contemplating on biometrics hand scan or retina eye scan to open and power on and start my mini laptop. I don’t intend it to fall into the wrong hands like Dr. Doom or the Joker or even Bart Simpson. It is undeniable the Eee PC is still young since release but it is still the oldest netbook on the block and with the number of different models of Eee PC that ASUS are producing, there is still a lot of life in the old/young netbook yet. While it is lauded with good features, but most of it are nice to have. If the manufacturer were to focus the need to have, it would have been a market benchmark and ultimately dominate this market segment.

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