I held off and lived with my G4 Powermac a bit longer to get the latest batch, but I also have some serious issues with these releases.
I'm thrilled that Firewire is back on the 13", and am also ecstatic about the price decreases across the board, but some of the omissions and sacrifices are a bit odd to me. Losing the Express 3/4 slot is not too big a deal, but it's one of those port options that offers a lot of expandability for some people, and an SD card reader won't even come close. One of the biggest things to me is the dumping of the full discrete graphics from the lowest end 15". Across the base from 13" to baseline 15", they're essentially Macbook Pros in name alone.
That said, I can't say that I can really complain all that much, as the original base price for the Pro is now the midrange, which has much of what I care about most, save for the Express slot. Overall, I'm a bit torn between the highest end 13" and the lowest 15", as they're essentially the same machine, save for display real estate.
Had this 15" had anything better than the 9400M, I would've gone for that immediately, but I'm looking at a $200 difference for display size alone.
Oh, decisions decisions.
My whining aside, these price drops make me very happy indeed.