Well yes it is a fraction cheaper than the D200, but not much. It is a lot more expensive than a 20D. Depends how many cash back vouchers Canon give with it. It makes the 20D look like a reasonable buy. It hasn't got 350 worth more features than a 20D.

And every one said, 'If we only live,
We too will go to sea in a Sieve,---
To the hills of the Chankly Bore!'
Far and few, far and few, Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue, And they went to sea in a Sieve.

Edward Lear
http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/ns/jumblies.html