When you ordered from Dell, they still had an expected ship date of Dec 20th I'm betting. Once that slipped away they gave a new date of Jan 2. (damn holidays ) If you want one sooner you might check buy.com which claims 1-2 days. They also have some coupons right now. If you want a great price, just call Dell back and ask for the 15% off coupon to be applied that some of us used. That should get it in the $360 range which should ease the pain.