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As Keeber pointed out in our comments yesterday for the MacBook Pro 17" announcement, there's something very weird going on at the Apple Store: if you have a 15" model built for you to match the processor and hard drive of the base 17" model, they both end up priced $2,799—despite the 17" having, you know, a larger screen, faster DVD drive, and the coveted Firewire 800.

John Gruber points out today that, "...If you upgrade both machines to the 100 GB 7200 RPM hard drives and 2 GB of RAM, the 17-inch MacBook winds up $100 cheaper ($3099 vs. $3199)."

Okay, we expect Apple to always jack prices up to slightly more than we'd like to be paying, but this is more than a little ridiculous. Time to cut prices on the 15"? And throw in Firewire 800 while you're at it, dammit.