Wanted to buy the Asus Eee today, the small one (701 4G). Figured out its screen was a tad too small for me, so I went home with empty hands.
Online, I discovered the larger Eee, the 900 with a 8.9" screen. I was going for the 20G variant with Linux installed. Alas, it's not on sale yet, at least in Germany. Not giving up, I found a few Swiss stores who claimed to have the 900 in stock (grey imports, but who cares...).
I was almost about to hit the order button when Google revealed that Asus was already phasing out the 900 in favor of the newer 901 model, equipped with Intel's new Atom CPU (=better battery performance).
Of course no hint of the 901, neither in German, nor Swiss nor US online stores. And no, I still didn't give up. On Ebay, I found a couple of HongKong sellers who promised to have the 901 in stock and to send it overseas, world-wide. But at horrendous shipping costs, and with a Chinese/English keyboard.
At the end of the day, I spent two hours chasing the ghost of a device that is not even on sale in my country yet -- only to discover that it got already replaced by another device (with no word of a shipping date).
