Lead time for iMac with SSD?

Has anyone ordered/received a 27" iMac with SSD?  When I configure that machine on the apple store website, the estimated shipping changes from less than one week to 4-6 weeks.
However, if I configure the same machine on MacMall their estimated shipping time changes from same day to 5-7 days.  I'd prefer to order directly from Apple as we get a (small) corporate discount, but a 4-6 week lead time is pretty rough to swallow.
A phone call to the Apple Store indicates they are having difficulty sourcing the SSD's. 
Has anyone had any recent experience trying to order this config?
Thank you
Mike

Thanks for the advice and the links. yes, I would like to speed up ps as much as possible.
I wonder if putting the scratch disc on the same drive as the OS would cause them to interfere with each other? Even if they are on different partitions, they would not be able to be accessed at the same time, or could they? That's why I was wondering if I should place scratch disc on the internal HDD -- but then I don't know how much to partition for it (or to partition at all?)
ALso, I read on a few places that too much read/write on the SSD wears it down over time? Is this more of a theoretical concerns - it does not make sense to me since it has no moving parts!
thanks again for the advice ... I'm gonna go digest those links

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