The article certainly is misleading here. If you look at the site you'll see the base price is about $1750 (at least for this weekend) and after that it will go up $500. Either way try finding anything with similar specs for that price. I just picked one up with the P9600, 4gb DDR3 ram, 200gb 7200rpm hdd, Nvidia 9800GTS, and all the base options for $2013 shipped. Considering that before this I was looking at Clevo's M570 for slightly more money with an 8600m, T9500, and 4gb of DDR2, I think it is an amazing deal. And since Intel isn't planning a mobile platform change until Q2 2009, this gives you a whole year before you are officially outdated.
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The article certainly is misleading here. If you look at the site you'll see the base price is about $1750 (at least for this weekend) and after that it will go up $500. Either way try finding anything with similar specs for that price. I just picked one up with the P9600, 4gb DDR3 ram, 200gb 7200rpm hdd, Nvidia 9800GTS, and all the base options for $2013 shipped. Considering that before this I was looking at Clevo's M570 for slightly more money with an 8600m, T9500, and 4gb of DDR2, I think it is an amazing deal. And since Intel isn't planning a mobile platform change until Q2 2009, this gives you a whole year before you are officially outdated.