Although the skin I put on the 1101HA a while back went a long way to get rid of glare on the netbook casing, I wanted something a bit more professional looking.

When I saw an article on the Internet about someone who had used matte black car tape to cover their EEE. The tape is meant to cover cars as an alternative to painting them and you might have seen similar tape used for large ads on buses and so on. The tape is cheap as it cost me about $30 for a roll shipped to Norway, which in my book is not bad. You should be able to get it much much cheaper if you live in a country like the US and can track somewhere that carries it. Applying it takes some getting used to and air bubbles are much more of a problem with this than with vinyl skins and the likes, but once you get it on the end result is also much better looking. It’s also possible to stretch the tape, which means you can get it to fit around curved edges perfectly without getting any wrinkles. The guy who did this in the article I read said you need to disassemble the netbook to cover it completely, but that isn’t really true. I put sheets of paper over the screen and keyboard and then cut out the screen/keyboard with an exacto knife leaving only the casing with tape on it, easily removing the excess tape as it only stuck to the paper not the screen/keyboard itself (which may have destroyed the LCD or ripped off keys). The end result is awesome, and paired with a matte screen protector you’re left with a netbook that looks a hell of a lot more professional than the glossy, fingerprint magnet nightmares that are actually sold.