Well I made the trip to the Apple store. I picked up their last Series 2 Space Gray Aluminum. Obviously there was no big discounts to be had.
One interesting note. I usually have to politely decline help several times when I am browsing at that store. They were not crowded. For some reason it seemed most of the help today was more interested in their phone content than in customer help. I had to actually interrupt one guy who was gaming on his phone to tell him what I wanted. He pulled up his special ordering phone and told me they have one left and then went back to his game on his personal phone. I had to ask what was going on! He then told me we were waiting on the apple helper elf to bring it out. I then had to request apple care +. No hard sell from that guy - or additional information. Me thinks they need to do a bit of staff training....hum...