I jumped a bit too soon, and it cost me 450 bucks, and I still am happy with my product. For the money, I think a 333 is probably the deal of the decade. My concern with the Pismo is the 333 already runs hot. I wonder if the new chip has added cooling, or they went with a different processor. I just finished your review, and the 95 degree ceiling makes me think this is the same chip as the 333, but a higher batch.
Result is more heat.
I wonder if it can take 3 years at this operating temperature, or this is a bit of planned time failure, since most of apple's customers probably won't keep the book that long. I am not jazzed about the lack of SCSI support, and the 400 Mb a sec advertising of FireWire is sophistry. SCSI bursts to 177mb a sec on my desktop, but only in 32k or smaller packets. FireWire bursts to 400mb a sec, but only with small packets, not sustained data transfer. I am sure the new SCSI 320 or 160 have bursts at least as fast, since I use only SCSI UW in my computer.