By the time this thing gets into the hands of people, the next generation of Mac books will be out.

Yeah, it and will be swallowed in the deluge.

The Modbook was the ONLY thing that would ever make me consider switching to Mac.

Hope to see it one day.

I'm wondering if the delay has anything to do with when Lepoard ships (October/November)? I seem to recall reading somewhere that the screen rotation may be dependent on that verison of OS X.

Screen rotation can be achieved in Tiger under monitor preferences. That isn't the reason for the delay. The excuse now is a "parts shortage". One wonders if the next problem will be a "shipping container shortage". I ordered one in January and I just cancelled. There was no notification of this latest (and 3rd, 4th?) delay. If they cannot be professional enough to launch on time or even to inform their users of this latest delay, then how much faith can one put in their product or their service after (and if) final delivery happens. Nice idea. Maybe a company that’s got it’s act together can come up with one. As for Axiotron/OWC? Not a chance. This is now sadly in the category of "vaporware".