It's actually even better than your headline suggests, because Mike doesn't *carve* them, he assembles them out of assloads of those custom-formed styrofoam shipping spacers that come surrounding every-damn-thing electronic that you buy. Here's a video: http://www.vimeo.com/890195

Did yours have the 60GB solid-state drive? That, for me, has been the biggest revelation: the thing boots like lightning, and I'm continually being re-amazed that I can do stuff like toss it on the couch while it's up & running, without having to worry about the non-existent hard drive crashing.

Note that I happen to have a job where I get to play with kewl new toys like the X300; ain't no way I'd ever pay $2700 for a freaking laptop (not in 2008, anyway). But count me firmly in the camp of those that believe that solid-state drives are game-changing in a way that few other laptop-hardware innovations have been lately. Can't wait til the price drops into mere-mortal territory.

@Devophill -- c'mon, cut Cory some slack, he was just (lazily) distilling the original blog post, which itself was clearly trying way too hard to be "hip" by name-checking SY & Stranger Than Paradise, when it's a safe bet that 85% of people who recognize Richard Edson would do so from "Do The Right Thing." Or wait, crap, that was ~20 years ago too.