Johannes kindly provided the link to the Expert dealers in Germany in his blog, and after some phone calls and endless listening to monophonic music on hold, I finally found an Expert shop in Buxtehude, where the employee said that he had already seen such a small white device with Linux. The family was startled that we would have to leave IMMEDIATELY, and then we preferred to ask the seller again: Yes, of course, we have the Asus eeePC, but we won’t sell it until January 24th. No chance of getting it earlier. I can only pre-order it today. Amazon still shows March 8-11 as the delivery date.
In this bad weather, an unpacking ceremony would have been a nice change.