With $2799, with student discount of $280, the device will cost $2519. The saving not that much compare to the pre-order price if got student discount.
firstly, not all of us are students...
secondly, student discount announced le meh?
well limiting the pre-order prices it to just 1 weekend and adjusting upwards now when there's still 1 month to go is a stupid move imho, cos people will be disincentived to make any orders from now till 19 November 2015, and more incentived to just wait and see if there may be more bundles or offers by other players later on like Best Denki or Gain City, who were not in this round's pre order.
and i think most people are also waiting for competitors to come up with alternatives to surface pro 4, tablets with keyboard docks/cover that runs on i5 i7, which should come soon, with hopefully more usb ports, usb C, full size sd and more configurations.
while the surface pen is an interesting proposition, most other brands also has their own stylus. As much as the staffpad demo is super amazing, it is just a program that can be installed on any other Windows tablet and works just as well with any other stylus.
i shall just wait till next PC show which should be in late November / early December based on past year schedules.