Might want to check out the Dell Mini 9...there are some screaming deals in the Outlet store right now, not to mention it has some selling points over the eeePC. The ASUS is nice, but the build quality of the Mini 9 is pretty sweet...feels very solid, a little better than the Asus, IMO. It's also very upgrade friendly, unlike all the other netbooks I've seen - everything is pretty accessible.

Mine arrived yesterday, with XP installed - none of the Outlet deals have Ubuntu. No big deal - had 8.10 running on it in short order, with just a couple minor tweaks necessary to get all the hardware working.

And if you're up for such things, it reportedly runs OS X very well...haven't tried that yet.