I'm not suprised. I've gone in to several stores and taken a look at their netbook line-up. The Windows netbooks are given glossy posters, with screensavers s

I'm not suprised. I've gone in to several stores and taken a look at their netbook line-up. The Windows netbooks are given glossy posters, with screensavers showing their specs and other marketing babble. The Linux netbooks sit at the end, with the screen blanked and with no marketing whatsoever, other than a bold price tag. Netbook manufacturers and retailers in general are failing really hard at marketing the selling points of these machines properly ("Comes with a free Microsoft Office-compatible Office suite and hundreds of other applications" and other benefits of the platform, better battery life, shorter boot times, etc..). What worries me is that people will see this half-assed exercise and conclude that the Linux on consumer machines experiment has failed, when in reality it was never really given a chance in the first place.