I completely agree. I will be buying this for my dad and sister (they both have iPods, so an optical drive is not a deal breaker; but the hard drive too small even for their needs). MBA is the perfect Mac to meet all there needs and I have other Macs around the house that would be useful with the Remote Disk functionality.

But I will wait a couple months to get it; because I too feel that an update to the hard drive is coming as pointed out earlier. I could be wrong; but the worse case scenario is that I will wait a little longer.