I am still trying to crack the code about what is different in different versions. I have hard drives laying everywhere and if the $200 product on plastic media is the same content as the $499 version because the $499 version comes on an external hard drive and enclosure then it's not really much of a decision for me. That would be $300 for a 160gb hard drive.... I just bought a 2tb for $129. I am looking for the advantage of spending the bigger dollars. The product page are written with PG buzzwords that a newbie does not understand.

So I guess the question resolves to this.

Is there a CD/DVD only product that has the exact same content as the $499 version that comes on a standalone external drive so I don't buy a hard drive I don't need.