While I agree with the price (if it is true) being too high for a netbook, I cant understand people who say Windows 7 on this is a EPIC fail and all such.

Quite frankly has lInux (any variant) on a netbook or notebook being an EPIC success anywhere ?

For Asus who popularised the netbook form factor with its EEEPC, they also had to fall back to Windows (after starting with Linux loaded on EEE) to gain mainstream and general user acceptance.

Lets face it Windows is the popular choice of OS. So any company that needs to do viable business has to support Windows. Its plain economics, not religion.

As for Windows 7 ...

I have always used Linux since a long time (staring with Caldera maybe) on my desktops and Laptops. But a recently bought media computer with Vista gave me a whole lot of pain and so I switched to Windows 7 (beta and then RC1). It was a refreshing change to see windows that I liked.

I have since switched out the Ubuntu install from my notebook also to Windows 7 and frankly it runs faster and cleaner. Even Ubuntu of late has collected a lot of flab and has slowed down some.

I have realised its an effective machine that I need, not a statement of freedom that I have to put on my shirt sleeves for all to see.