I actually stopped by my local store. The new laptops were in the store but not checked in yet so I couldn't exchange when I was there. Besides that, Friday the first of august is the start of tax-free weekend. If I exchange my machine then, I'll save another couple of hundred dollars on top of going with the base $1999 versus my $3299 October '13 machine for a total savings of about $1150 after all is said and done for literally the same machine minus 512gb SSD.