I'm surprised no one has mentioned the price of the laptop that the author gets. The thing is $1,400 base price - and that's with a 120 GB SSD and 4 GB of RAM.

I'm surprised no one has mentioned the price of the laptop that the author gets. The thing is $1,400 base price - and that's with a 120 GB SSD and 4 GB of RAM. Up it to 8 GB of RAM and a 500 GB SSD and you're paying $1,7000. Seems quite the hefty price to pay.