it shipped!
The estimated arrival date is 11-10. Anticipation ....
I upped the harddrive to 250GB, added wireless and the bluetooth bundle(adapter, keyboard & mouse). I'm going to max the ram via 3rd party - [link|http://eshop.macsales.com/Catalog_Item.cfm?ID=6077&Item=OWC3200DDR2GBPKIT|2GB for $420 from OWC] vs. $1125 from Apple.
Darrell Spice, Jr. [link|http://www.spiceware.org/cgi-bin/spa.pl?album=./Artistic%20Overpass|Artistic Overpass]\n[link|http://www.spiceware.org/|SpiceWare] - We don't do Windows, it's too much of a chore
