Ok, on Amazon the i7 7700 (non K variant) sells for $299. The i7 7700k sells for $337. That's more.
https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=i7+7700&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Ai7+7700
And if you don't like retail prices, here are the original recommended customer...
That's just you man. I'm in Starbucks on one right now writing this reply. There are three others in sight. Also I work for one of the largest healthcare companies in the country and they are all over our corporate headquarters. I have several friends who have them, none of whom are apple...
http://gizmodo.com/5100996/false-alarm-apple-mac-os-x-anti+virus-recommendation-is-old
Not that I am an apple fanboi (posting from a vista64 computer) but this was just an update to an old tech note. Apple has been recommending, and in some cases selling, AV software for years. Since long...
Wow ran on my 701 4g during the brief time I had windows on it. Everything on minimum, it did ok for chatting or checking the AH, but I wouldn't try to actually play on it. Not even just grinding.
I use one attached to my mac mini doing service as a media center. It's the house iTunes repo and has rips of all our dvds to play through front row on the hdtv its attached to. I love it.
The whole voiding your warranty for adding ram thing is illegal in the US (IANL). ASUS tried that and had to quickly back pedal when someone pointed out that the Magnuson-Moss act expressly prohibited this. The same will happen to the MSI warranty provision.
You're gonna love it. I got one this past weekend and I'm running xp and ubuntu on vmware. It works great! As it happens, netflix watching was the one windows thing I couldn't give up too. Crazy.