I have it in hand now. It's a beauty.

Funny thing, when you unpack it, of course the battery is separate. If you hold the battery (the standard battery) in one hand, and the unit itself in your other hand, the battery feels heavier than the rest of the unit.

It unfortunately came loaded with crapware, mostly easy to deal with. I still can't figure out how they were starting Sony Care and Sony Update 4, there were no entries for them in the registry or elsewhere that I could find, but it was trivial to remove those useless (for me) apps with add/remove programs.

The keyboard and display are great. Not sure about the trackpad yet. The trackpad buttons are great. It's really a nice machine.

I'll be traveling with it for 2 weeks starting tomorrow. I'll report back later. I'm definitely keeping it. Can't really return it to amazon.com easily anyway.

I'm trying to live with UAC this time. What fun. Does anybody that knows what they are doing actually leave it enabled?

-David