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I usually estimate that stock clock is about gtx 970, so with a good OC gtx 980.

Falcon Northwest's points about it being available for the life of the series and having the SFF friendly cooling makes a lot of sense, and easily justifies the $100 increase, for them. However, isn't MSRP +$100 usually the range which you'd expect to see binned chips in addition to the power...

Earlier they explicitly said that they weren't announcing a new version of Windows, so I would expect it to be an update like 8.1-2, 8.2 or something....

Microsoft showed windows 8.1 with a real start menu at Build 2014. You can see it here: http://channel9.msdn.com/?wt.mc_id=build_hp at around 3:10:00 They also mention being able to run modern ui apps on the desktop, instead of them just being kinda dumb.