How would you change Dell's Inspiron Mini 10?

After a rocky, if not comical launch, Dell's Inspiron Mini 10 is now shuffling out in full force to legions of soon-to-be netbook owners. For those of you who already bought in -- via QVC or the more traditional street corner vendor model -- we're wondering what you'd do differently if magically given a mythical Do Over token. Would you simply offer up the options (TV tuner, for one) promised during the machine's announcement? Would you tweak that trackpad at all? Add a little bulk in exchange for a beefier battery? Paint the whole thing fuschia and make it reek of week-old bananas? Feel free to get as crazy as you'd like in comments below; who knows, maybe Round Rock's tuning in to just see what you have to say.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 4th 2009 3:18PM]

Make it able to run OSX.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 4th 2009 4:25PM]

Make a proper keyboard! If the 10 is like the 9, then put in a row of Funciton keys that go all the way to f12, like Asus does, and make sure it works 100% in Ubuntu w/o special quirk drivers!

[cray Posted Apr 4th 2009 6:01PM]

Lets get the terminology right people.

Memory = RAM

Storage = Harddrive

[TastyWheat Posted Apr 5th 2009 3:13PM]

Glass screen option. Cleaning soft LCDs is the worst.

[nightalon Posted Apr 4th 2009 6:33PM]

2 GB RAM/upgradable and 3 fully functional minipci-e slots so I can add a good WIFI card, 3G modem, and TV tuner. OMG, nirvana. The keyboard and hi res screen option already bring it to the top of the pack! (I just went for a D150 for the two usable MiniPCI-E slots...I figure I can switch off between tuner and modem as necessary...wish me luck.)

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 4th 2009 8:01PM]

Inbuilt [b]not network locked[/b] 3g Wireless broadband modem!!!!
Dual core processor and 2gb of ram instead of 1.....

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 4th 2009 9:40PM]

I had been dying waiting for a touchscreen Mini. But, after reading these comments, the one thing that there's no way I'm going to buy one is if they keep doing glossy screens on these things. I have never understood why when people look at their monitor they want to see reflections of themselves in dark areas of the screen. It's distracting. I just want to be able to concentrate on what I'm working on on my computer. Not looking at myself.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 5th 2009 1:40PM]

9400 chipset + dual core atom

[HDpurist Posted Apr 4th 2009 10:41PM]

Dell laptops feel crappy and low quality...

[CJ Posted Apr 5th 2009 12:44AM]

As far as netbooks go, this one is right up there with the best.

However, I would have liked to have seen a WWAN card, even as an optional extra.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 5th 2009 3:50AM]

I would like to see netbooks in general changed to a different keyboard&trackpad lay-out. Move the keyboard to the front and use a trackball, or something similar, instead of the awkward to use trackpad set-ups used now.

Having used this Adesso wkb-3000ub KB for a few years it seems to me that a similar trackball set-up would make netbook's A LOT easier to use.
http://www.google.com/search?client=opera&rls=en&q=adesso+wkb-3000ub

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 5th 2009 8:31AM]

VGA port! My god, without this, the unit is unusable as a business/educational tool! Oh, yeah.... more RAM.

[SHFT Posted Apr 5th 2009 8:38AM]

Add some lasers and jetpack

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 6th 2009 4:46AM]

Bringing back the Graphics card from the Mini 9 so you can install Mac OSX on it!!

[brdystyls Posted Apr 6th 2009 10:19AM]

Smaller, 7" screen. And tablet/ panel style. Not the ugly old clam shell look.