FYI in case anyone else decides to go through this confusion: the developer edition is $50 more than the non-developer edition. However, the developer edition is through the business department, the non-developer is consumer. The dev edition includes ProSupport, which is probably worth $50 since it's guaranteed next day on-site repair.

Doing a chat sale convo without asking I was able to get a $75 discount. So it ends up being $25 less than the best quote the consumer group got me. I have no idea why...

One "unfortunate" thing though is that I don't get an OEM copy of Windows to test with Boxes and virt-manager. The license says you can use a copy of OEM Windows in a VM or on baremetal, but I have no idea how the whole validation thing works when Windows doesn't have direct hardware access from which it gets the licensing information. I don't know if that passes through to the VM or not. OH well, one less thing to test!