I did not buy the final boxed n900 available in my district yesterday.
That honor goes to the people who waited in line behind me.
The stores here are all sold out and no more stock is coming for the n900.
There are no more and I gather Nokia is no longer shipping them.

If you want a new unit you should probably search it out and buy it now
because soon enough there will no more new n900s to be had
anywhere.

A debugged Meego in your n900 is coming.
some day.
not today.

Today we have Maemo and all the learning curve for that under our feet and
stretching off into the distance behind us and immediately in our face.
The Meego learning curve is merely a vague concept at this point,
it is not fielded anywhere of any consequence,
there exist no beta testing hardware compatibility groups.

How many months will the meego learning curve consume before,
given it reaches the "ready to eat" stage to the point where apps begin to actually get ported or developed ?
Hint - the answer is measured in financial quarters.

There is no such thing as an N9 - not in this universe.
It does not exist.
Maybe someday it will exist, but holding your breath is pointless.

And I have already looked at the alternatives
and there are exactly zero alternatives until and unless there
is ever a way to hack something real onto some Android hardware.

Ain't gonna happen, given
Googles REMOVE_ASSET and INSTALL_ASSET 'dark side' behaviour
coupled with the bizarre and constantly changing backflips needed to jailbreak Android units.

The bottom Line:
The n900 is the last phone you can actually own with a real
configurable operating system you can control.

That Apple product you buy is under the direct control of Apple.
The software you install on Android is subject to whether or not
Google wakes up one morning and decides to wipe your handset.
Nokia, following the twisted lead of Apple and Android
has also demonstrated its desire and ability
to remotely detonate the products it sells.

The n900 is not a unit for the great unwashed masses,
but more for those of us who want something we can actually control.