While playing with the eeePC I realized that I had not felt the urge for a colour adjustment, strange as I am picky about colour, and did spend ages getting the colour close to acceptable on other LCDs.
Changing the brightness up or down did not seem to affect colour either, so I began to wonder if this thing had perhaps a LED backlight. I never had a laptop with LED backlight... so I looked up the specs of this little machine, and indeed LED!
I must say the difference is enormous, the LED backlight creates a much better colour display, almost like the old CRT but without its problems. Dunno how they did it, it is pretty evenly lighted too.