I ordered mine from the Apple Store and it arrived Monday morning.
I am in the UK though.
So very I'm quite impressed. Build quality is better than I expected.

Where are you seeing $2700 ?
If I go to the US Apple Store and spec out a maxed out 17 incher I get a price of $3499

That's for a 17" MacBook Pro
3.06GHz (adds $300 over standard 2.8GHz)
8GB Ram (adds $600 over standard 4GB)
7200 rpm 500GB drive (adds $50 over 5400 rpm drive)
Antiglare screen (adds $50 over glossy screen)

That's a total of $1000 over the stock 17" MBP price which is still showing as $2499 from where I'm sitting, so $3499 in total.

If you can see that spec for $2700 please tell me where! I ask because I ordered this spec machine just over a week ago - due for delivery on Friday!

Tim, are you sure about that? Reading VoloMedia's own blog here http://www.volomedia.com/blog/ they seem to think the patent covers everything: -

'Today, podcasting is 100% RSS-based. However, the patent is not RSS-dependent. Rather, it covers all episodic media downloads. It just so happens that, today, the majority of episodic media downloads are RSS-based podcasts'

So from their point of view it does apply to 99.99999% of podcasts.

Not sure how the hell VoloMedia managed to get the Podcast patent through, Wikipedia gives a good history of podcasting here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_podcasting including their patent application which is clearly 3 years after the real groundwork was initially done.

Lots of mentions of Nambu etc here, but no mention of Lounge http://loungeapp.com which seems pretty good. Most of the features of Nambu, but faster and more stable (for me anyway). I've been using and/or Twitterific up until I bought Tweetie earlier today. Worth a look if you don't want to fork out for Tweetie anyway.

OK point about it now being available as standard in store taken. I had to wait weeks to get this laptop built to order.

Obviously I haven't seen the new screen yet, but I can say that the previous hi-res one is amazing - best screen I've ever used. I've had a 30" Cinema display for the last few years which I've used with my previous 17" MacBook Pro and Powerbook, but I don't think I've even turned it on in the last few months. That's how good the hi-res screens are, and if the new ones are even better...

What is all the fuss with the 1920*1200 resolution? It's been available as an option on the 17" MacBook Pro since around March 2008 - I typing this on a March 2008 LED backlit 1920*1200 17" MBP right now. Wake up people.

OK, maybe the colour gamut has improved, but the hi-res LED backlit option is nearly a year old.

The hi-res screen is nothing new, I think it came in in March 200. I got it as an option on my 2.6GHz 17" from March 2008, and it's a fantastic screen.

Looks like global search and replace caught one of the site editors out.

They're awesome - just ordered a finder pillow, and the full set of limited edition halloween finder pillows.