I ordered mine from Target yesterday. It came to $195 plus change. This included the 20% off coupon, shipping, and taxes. As soon as I placed my order and checked the item it showed "availability unknown" so maybe I snuck in under the wire. They estimate my ship date as the 18th. I plan to harvest the drive for use in my Canon G5 digicam. I may sell the unit minus the drive or throw in one of my 256mb cards and sell. I really don't have much use for the player itself. Last I heard people were still able to pull the drive and use it. I think the rumor of Hitachi changing it were false. From what I've read they aren't able to keep up with demand between the muvo2 and ipod so I doubt they've had the time to change their manufacturing process much less Apple and Creative changing theirs too.