I went shopping for laptop for my daughter so my 1st stop was Best Buy, the prices were OK nothing amazing, but the guy tells me the only way you can now get restore CD is buy it from them for $99, which I knew was a stretch and kinda rubbed me the wrong way.
So I thought maybe I'll pop into OfficeMax next door just to see what they had to offer and their prices were way better! To top it off, they even had a few clearance models that were crazy cheap. I ended up with a Acer, Intel Core i3-370M Processor, 500GB hard drive, 4GB system memory, wifi, webcam, etc for $379 and the guy even told I could make my own restore CD...lol
