That's a terrible analogy. It has what you want. You just said you're looking for a system like that ... but the components are overkill. Is it the price that's too much?
Your opinion on Windows 10 is frankly irrelevant here. My entire point was he can get the serial for free now while he still can, or he can wait and pay the $100+ later. I'm strictly talking about money here. Not the moral and ethical implications of your opinion on the OS.
Not sure what you mean. Care to elaborate? You can make a bootable backup of your drive using either Carbon Copy Cloner (not free) or SuperDuper! (not free, but the cloning function is free indefinitely). You could, for example, clone your internal drive to the new drive you plan on upgrading...
There's been several of these deals the last couple weeks. The deals have been around the $400 mark with a rebate. Newegg has occasional deals like this, they just don't last long. Where's that ten bucks?