Understood Rob. I have been waiting for that announcement too. I will stop waiting, and base my judgments solely on current offerings accordingly.

[edit, after talking with some people elsewhere about this]
> I suspect that Rio Marketing feel that they have never announced a 40GB model

I feel that is wrong. It was listed as coming soon at a couple of places, and some even had a pre-order for it. These places did not do this out of thin air, Rio must have told them something. The fact is that a huge number of people believe that it is coming, and regardless of what the official announcements are, they need to address this.