I'm not overstating things.
When the netbooks came, they were indeed tiny and cheap. Today they are just as big and bulky as mid-90ies laptops, and the price has gone up as well.
Where the hell have you been looking for netbooks? Seriously, I've owned mid 90's laptops. Even the bulkiest netbooks currently on the market don't come close.
Now the price does annoy me. There is nothing, and I do mean nothing that a netbook available for sale today offers in terms of functionality that the £200 AcerA1 didn't have, and certainly nothing to justify £150 more on the price tag.
The entire thing pisses me off, since I actually like and very much prefer the sub 9" variant of the eeepc 900-series. Just my luck that when something comes along that I actually like, it also vanishes almost immidiately.
Can't argue with you there, I had heard rumours that Asus were planning on bringing the 900 series back, but I've not seen anything to confirm that.