Greg, it seems his justifications were that he really did need a new portable, like he said in the post. If they've blown off the PowerPC architecture because it'll be hard to bring out G5 PowerBooks, they're not gonna deliver those now just before switching to Intel. My guess is that he's been holding out until the WWDC to see if a G5 PowerBook was coming, and decided to buy a PowerBook anyway, architecture change or not.