First Impression: How do I open the retail box (i.e. the "pretty" box inside the plain corsair box inside the amazon box)

The unit was VERY well boxed and shipped from Amazon.

Bottom line: wonderful box, worth its asking price, but factor in the likelihood you'll only be upgrading storage and RAM down the road.

The pictures on the plastic things on the side were not very helpful in telling me how to "unlock" (press in on the tabs, then pull them outward), and even then did not realize that I needed to pull those black plastic things out from the box itself to free up the box to open