The ideal laptop...

It is so tough to make a laptop for desktop fans, as they will always be critical of performance, not appreciating the fact that the added mobility advantage has to have a few negatives in performance.

However, if you are a laptop maker, like Toshiba, follow these steps to make the transition so easy. In fact, a lot of Toshiba laptop holders have forgotten that they were working on a laptop.

* Some are familar with shortcuts and try to use them extensively. So move a few keys (like the 'Windows' key) here and there, so that they are more comfortable with it. An additional suggestion is that you keep it away from keys like 'D', 'E' which would be mostly used in combination with 'Windows' so that the user needs just to spread his hands to get hold of the two keys.

* Desktop users don't like switching their monitors off. So make sure you don't have any key which aids in that. However, in its place, you can add a few other keys with descriptive sign, like the male-denoting-sign outside toilets.

* 'Ctrl' is very commonly used along many keys, so make sure it is at least only placed once at one corner. However, keep the option for additional 'Ctrl' keys with blank spaces near the arrow keys. Surveys say that it seems a good teaser.

* Do demonstrate flying performance whenever a heavy option like 'right-clicking' is performed. That means, start running all fans at top speed to give the noise of a plane getting ready to start take-off.

* Smooth multi-tasking - Ensure that the end-user gets smooth multi-tasking by running one at a time, that the user doesn't notice. That includes some fun aspect like, holding all audio, window activity so that a right-click operation can be processed. Users are not curious on what goes on during this microseconds-lasting break, so no information will need to be shown.

Enjoy the Toshiba experience...