Yeah, I think the one at Best Buy (the one my friend got) is a very specific one for Best Buy. Newegg/Amazon/ZipZoomFly have some variations of it that can be better for the price, but she does not care about graphics or this or that so she bought it from Best Buy. It works great and does everything she needs.
With the HU, I will probably end up with one of the pioneers, still not sure which one. Though I am not going to really pick until the end of the month. I am still going over features and different items each one can do. Probably just need to start one of my spreadsheets and check boxes to do the comparison, be back in a bit now.