Indeed, I forgot about that. $2k is an exhorbitant price to pay for those specs, and I consider the non-USA version expensive as well, but it's the cost of loca

Indeed, I forgot about that. $2k is an exhorbitant price to pay for those specs, and I consider the non-USA version expensive as well, but it's the cost of local manufacturing and I applaud Purism for the effort. Hopefully that overhead will start to diminish once more manufacturers start doing the same.