Any Comments from Folks with New MacBook Pros?

Just wondering for those of you who have been lucky enough to get your hands on one of the new MB Pros... What are your thoughts? I think it may be time for me to upgrade my original Core Duo MacBook. Although... as much of a Mac fan that I am... I have PC notebooks as well (the last of which I got just a few months ago). I just have to decide if I should go with a new 13.3" and take the chance of getting kicked out by my better half for bringing home another notebook. The base model would probably be okay for me... but I'd probably go for the 2.53GHz model.

Have you checked out the iFixit teardown?
http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/MacBook-Pro-13-Inch-Unibody/814/1
The 13-inch MacBook Pro is tempting the hel* out of me!
Good luck!

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