I got one myself last week with the combo drive, and it's also pretty loud reading discs, so it's not just the superdrive that's noisy.

So far after playing with it for almost a week now, I'm loving it, I'm also a PC person who decided to get a Mini since the price was right, and now I'm starting to drool over those Powerbooks since I'm really starting to like OS X.

I'm just amazed that I'm able to do stuff like plug in my camera and it just works, or connect to my bluetooth phone, and was able to sync with the address book without tearing my hair out like with the PC.

Who knows I might just switch, my Mini is able to play World Of Warcraft, well, much slower than my AMD64 system.

I did pick up Mac OS X Panther Hacks, it's not an intro book, but it's got a lot of neat tricks in it.

Oh, and another thing, Mini + GarageBand + GuitarPodXT == Nice little recording studio.