4-6 weeks?!!?

So I've been really excited for today, the day that apple would announce the new MBPs... I go to the website, look at the 15, upgrade the ram, no problem. Then I go to upgrade the HD from the 160 gb @ 5400rpms to the 160gb @ 7200 and all of the sudden the shipping time goes from 1-3 DAYS to 4-6 WEEKS!!! I really wanted this laptop sooner than the estimated 4-6 weeks. Does anyone have any experience with getting apples products with a 4-6 week estimate much earlier? Also, how big is the difference between 5400 and 7200 rpms??

You need the speed on programs that use the drive a lot.
CS probably isn't a huge drive user but it could have a very slight positive effect on the long program loads.
CS3 takes a while to load some parts, but once loaded things are fine...
Gamers like fast drives for the temp files and such that some games use.
I haven't timed the difference between the 5400 and 7200 rpm drives but for limited short access, there can't be much benefit.
BTW: I'm getting the 7200 for a PeeCee notebook that runs multiple Virtual PC machines. The loadup should be much easier and the virtual machines seem to hit the drive silly which smacks of thrashing of the cache files for memory and the virtual drives. Virtual PC is Microsoft's fix for programs that won't run on Vista.
As always, your mileage may vary...

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