Don't mind at all! I paid $570 shipped for it, new in the box, and with a TPU case included. It's the first unlocked, off-contract, phone I've purchased and no regrets at all.
The Diztronic TPU (rev. 3) case that I currently have has been pretty nice. It came with a screen protector, as well. It's about $10 on Amazon. However, I've recently purchased an Otterbox Defender for it (about $34 on eBay) since I'm overly paranoid about fucking up the screen or worse by...
Agreed! I found it too much hassle to properly get SSD caching up and running. Running OS and vital apps on a Crucial M4 64GB and not looking back at 'Intel SRT' caching ever again.