So, I went ahead and pulled the trigger on it. Came to $840 after tax.
From what i found on ebay and Amazon that's a pretty good price but i have 45 days to change my mind if you guys have any thoughts.
Funny Story- even though i told him it wasn't possible the Best Buy Sales guy was convinced i could just pay them to upgrade the hard drive. Was running around the store trying to find a geek squad guy to get a price quote on it. Came back after 10 min and said "well i guess you know more about this product than i do." haha!