I am seriously considering one for work as I do a large amount of travel plus I have n hour train ride each way to get to work each day so often am working on the train or watching TV shows - this would be perfect.

With the slightly faster processor it will retail in the US for A$3,000 ish (A$800 cheaper than in Oz) after an immediate tax deduction it will then only be about A$1,700 which is pretty reasonable to me.

It looks like it will do exactly what I need for work and travel - the only question for me being how one runs games on it given the lack of optical drive (yes I know you can buy an optical drive or use a virtual drive). It would be great if you create a disc image on an external HDD (I have a small 160GB LaCie drive I travel with already) and access that like an optical drive...

We currently have an iMac G5 and mrssimongr has an iBook so this would be a nice addition.