I'm not going to defend onsale.com because I read the online reviews and opted to go through buy.com for about $15 more when ordering my n800 on 01-Dec.

However... buy.com is only a little more forthcoming with info here. Finally on 08-Dec, after three emails from me, they finally admitted that the item was back ordered. No ETA. At the same time (and still today), they are listing the item online at the site new shoppers will see as "Usually ships in 1-2 days" instead of "out of stock" or "on order" ... although I doubt anyone will order today since their price is suddenly $369.70 (if you can believe that)!

Having said ALL of this... I'm still not cancelling my order with them yet because of hope I'm clinging to based on the following link:

http://tabletblog.com/2007/12/n800-is-is-not-dead.html

Having read that, I'm beginning to believe that the item may be in transition and I'm going to hope that my delivery, though likely much later than I wanted it, might be a new n800 with the new OS2008 installed. Just maybe ...

Hope springs eternal in the blissfully ignorant.

UPDATE: Murphy strikes again (in my favor) .. status is now "Shipped 10-Dec" (actually still sitting waiting for FedEx to pick up from warehouse) with ETA 14 Dec. Hooray for blissful ignorance.