Seagate 7200.4 500GB now available?

Does anyone else know about this? I'm looking to replace my HDD, ideally for Christmas, so I'm waiting for Seagate's next release.

Momentus 5400.6 and 7200.4 hard drives are to begin shipping in Q4 calendar 2008.
http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.j...toid=19549a9dafc0b110VgnVCM100000f5ee0a0aRCRD

I have actually contacted Seagate directly last week and found out that they have pushed the release date to the beginning of 2009.

macsales has it available in 12 days:

http://eshop.macsales.com/Search/Se...s=P_Price|1&Ne=5000&N=6892&Ntt=2.5+hard+drive

500GB 2.5" Seagate Momentus 7200.4 7200RPM SATA Notebook drive with 16MB Cache 5yr Warranty
500GB 2.5" Seagate Momentus 7200.4 7200RPM **SATA** Notebook drive with 16MB Cache - New with 5 Year Seagate Warranty. more 12 Days $179.99
Brand: Seagate OWC Item # SEAST9500420AS

"February"

I spoke with Seagate CS today and they said that it should begin shipping to distribution channels the end of this month (January '09) and should be available at retail "in February".

Latest on the 500GB 2.5" 7200.4

I just checked yesterday or the day before, and OWC said it would be shipping in 3 days, and I just checked again tonight and the timeframe has been moved to 20 days.

Aren't these already on newegg?

rgarjr said:

Aren't these already on newegg?

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Newegg.com is backordered and lists their ETA as 4/29/09. Wanted to buy from macsales.com and get it with their mercury on-the-go enclosure in one shipment, but if new egg gets it first, I'll order the drive from them.

EDIT: Just for reference, here's a link to the drive on newegg.com: Seagate 500GB 2.5" 7200.4

Available elsewhere

I have the same issue: Pending order at OWC, now moved to 19 days to ship. I spoke with a CSR who said that they got a notification from Seagate that they were delayed.

It's available, though, elsewhere, but I wonder if it might be best to wait for this next shipment--if there are some mfr improvements made along the line, etc? Sounds sort of hokey, but if not I'm going to cancel my macsales order and order from another retailer.