OEMs have done this for a long time. When Circuit City was around it was very rare for the laptops to have the same model number. Of course, often they'd do ot

OEMs have done this for a long time. When Circuit City was around it was very rare for the laptops to have the same model number. Of course, often they'd do other little things too, like maybe a smaller HDD but a better CPU. Just enough to make it not really the same Laptop, but close enough you picked up on the trend.