Well I finally got my hands on it, and let me say, this is one fantastic piece of hardware. It is thin and light, weighing in at about half the weight of my roomates compaq which has an identical screen size even with the 9 cell battery. I find the keybaord actually preferable to the keyboard on my desktop. I love the non glossy screen, as it produces very little glare. Little touches like the keyboard light really endear me to this laptop. As for the proformance and heat isssues many have mentioned in regards to the t43, while admitedly I have not had alot of experiance with the t42, my laptop runs both cool (as long as its not sitting on a blanket or somthing that smothers it) and quiet, not to mention extremly fast. The fan revs up to a fairly audible level briefly at startup, but then drops to a nearly inaudible level for the rest of the time I use it.....about 6 hours at the longest so far. The x300 graphics are surprisngly capable in WoWand the new civilisation game, the only 3D games I have bothered to load up to this point. Time out of hibernation is virtualy instant, by the time the I get the screen open I see the login prompt ready to go. My shipping experiance was less than optimal, stay away from UPS, but dont let that stop you from getting one of these great laptops.