The geek version of the saying “You can never be too rich or too thin.”  is “You can never have too much RAM or harddrive space.”

MCE Technologies took half of this to heart and is now offering the MCE OptiBay Harddrive, a 500gb 2.5″ harddrive replacement for the optical drive of the 17″ MacBook Pro. This, along with another half-TB for the factory-installed harddrive of the lapzilla, you can conceivably have a full terabyte in there and fulfill your lifelong dream of keeping every single file you ever owned or made with you at all times.

Sure, like a MacBook Air, you’ll be optical drive-less, but heck, think of the bragging rights!

And if you’re worried about the displaced Apple-issued hardware, MCE thoughtfully includes external enclosures for both the optical and the hard drive. (For the US$799 tag, they’d better! Add US$149 for a quick MCE overnight install, or US$99 for more leisurely shipping back and forth.)

Of course the sticking point with the MacBook Air is that it is a closed machine - it is what it is, and that’s it. Well, that’s never really stopped some folk. If there’s a will - plus some dremel tools and a soldering iron - there’s a way.

Take this guy named Jordan Bunnell who added an EVDO broadband wifi card (a USB727 Verizon Aircard) to the innards of his Air, something most people didn’t think possible given the space available. True, he had to sacrifice his wifi and Bluetooth, but he proves it can done. Hm.

Check out the butchery, complete with pictures and discussion here and here.

The rumors were true - updated iMacs, hot off the griddle! It seems the only thing they didn’t get was that it was happening a day earlier than the customary Tuesday announcement.

So what’s up? Same price, better specs! Core2Duo Penryns, faster speeds, more goodies:

• Bluetooth 2.1+EDR
• 802.11n WiFi
• Gigabit Ethernet
• built-in iSight
• 5x USB2
• Firewire 400
• Firewire 800
• 8x double-layer SuperDrive

Here’s the breakdown:

• 20-inch iMac: 2.4GHz proc, 128MB ATI Radeon HD 2400 XT (1680 x 1050), 1GB RAM, 250GB 7200RPM disk, $1,199.
• 20-inch iMac: 2.66GHz proc, 256MB ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro (1680 x 1050), 2GB RAM, 320GB 7200RPM disk, $1,499.
• 24-inch iMac: 2.8GHz proc, 256MB ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro (1920 x 1200), 2GB RAM, 320GB 7200rpm disk, $1,799.
• 24-inch iMac: 3.06GHz proc, 512MB NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS (1920 x 1200), 2GB RAM, 500GB 7200rpm disk, $2,199.

Available now. Here. Cool.

Gizmodo’s got proof!

Someone actually got an actual living, breathing Psystar Open Computing unit, that third-party hardware pseudo-Macintosh desktop and made a video of it booting up. Software Update can’t seem to figure out what it is, but it thinks it’s a Macbook Pro. Whatever it is, it’s damned fast!

See the exclusive video!

UPDATE: Psystar itself seems to want to validate itself. It just put up a video of its own on their site, although they can’t seem to shake off that cloud of seediness and smarm that’s been clinging to it from Day One, up to now. Especially now. Watch it here.

Macbook Air.