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Surely the cost of producing two lots of components, larger for the 80gb, smaller for the 40gb, would be higher than just using the same for both. They will already take a substantial loss on the $400 model, why would they want to increase it?

Also, a semi-slim model might well reduce the effectiveness, sales wise, of the true slim model when that is released.