I too wanted to lay my hands one one before I paid my money. But as best as I can figure, that is impossible unless you know someone who has one in Canada. The N800 is _only_ available via mail order.

That said, I did like many others here suggested, and I took a leap of faith and ordered one from Amazon. For the most part, it is a wonderful fun little machine.

As a linux junkie, I would like to see more command line linux apps installed (iwconfig, strace, bash, ldd). But that is my bias.

It comes with a nice set of included applications (such as Opera browers with Flash, and Skype, as well as a video conferencing app that works with Google Chat (just tried that last night, it is cool!).

I know this won't help you get your hands on one, but I hope it allays your fears about buying one.

Craig...