When quoting European prices, you need to take into account EU prices include 25% VAT Tax, which thus means the price in $US is most probably going to be in the same area of $375.

By the way, which “handful of companies have offered Linux netbooks that have additional RAM or other features”? I haven't heard of any other company doing this.

The irony is heavy here. . . Until now some Linux netbooks tended to have less RAM and storage because Linux generally doesn't require as much as XP. Now we may see some Linux-based netbooks go the opposite direction — because they're *allowed* to.

With low-spec ARM-based netbooks on one side, and high-spec X86 Linux netbooks on the other side, it looks like Microsoft have staked out the middle ground — and are setting themselves up to be surrounded.

Another company offering a Linux netbook with more than 1GB RAM:

http://www.kogan.com.au/shop/kogan-agora-netboo…

This could easily become more and more common as it begins to dawn on OEMs that if they offer better hardware specifications and a better OS with a full set of applications for the same price, people will buy it if they are offered it, even if it isn't Microsoft.

Apart from bigger disks and more RAM, another possibility is better processors, perhaps dual core or even quad core ARM CPUs could be the go here.

Where online can I buy the Archos 10 with Ubuntu…I cannot find it!