In a spur of the moment decision, I bought a MSR Pocket Rocket Deluxe over the weekend from Al's, a local retailer, while browsing there and saw that all their backpacking stoves happened to be 20% off. That made it about $56 over the typical $70 retail. Now that I've slept on it a couple nights and read through many more reviews, I'm heavily considering returning it, despite the great deal on it, and going for what it was designed to compete with, the Soto Windmaster, which is a stove I actually had on my wish list for this year that I had been considering before the MSR anyway.
For what it's worth to any others who can't resist (assuming that sale is still on this week) and who are local here in Utah/Idaho, specifically near Idaho Falls, Logan, or Orem, they also had the new Jetboil Stash system out on shelf that just shipped last week. And as a stove, it too was part of the 20% off stove sale. So it could be picked up for about $100 over the retail of $130.
It was awfully tempting for me as a gear fan, but even on sale, it still felt a little too overpriced for me for what it is and don't trust that the stove itself is as wind resistant now as their original integrated systems are (I do have a Zip). But alas, I also already have a Toaks 700mL Ti Pot, and an OliCamp 1L XTS pot for when I'd want to boil larger volumes and it too has a flux ring on it, and thus figured that the MSR PDR or Soto would be a very nice match for those pots as an upgrade over my old trusty SnowPeak.
Now, if the Stash stove had the same concave burner head on it with a little windshield lip on the rim and a micro regulator, like the MSR and Soto stoves already mentioned, then that'd be another story and I would have been all over it, because that would promise to be even more efficient and would be a very light weight and versatile setup and would make such a high price well worth it IMO. It is a compact and clever little system. Not sure what all is going on with any patents between Soto and MSR though.