[TheDopp]

Fine, I'll bite.

Add Wireless N, a Bluetooth dongle, a battery upgrade (~5 hours standard versus the macs ~7), Roxio Easy CD Creator (covers the cost and SOME of the functionality of iLife, standard on all Macs for $20 off the sticker price of iLife), ignore the fact that it can't do multi-touch on the trackpad and remove the current automatically added coupon ($249) and the price comes out to $1083.

but Roxio is free with the machine, and it STILL only came up to 750$ after the wireless N and bluetooth AND battery upgrades, so whatever you are smoking you can stop it.

I even looked at that mac, and in order to match dell's free service you would have to add AppleCare and One to One. With the 2gb ram upgrade and the mini display port and mini VGA port adapters (because the studio already HAS a VGA and DVI port) we can add Bento to match the functionality of windows 98 for your file browser, and we are up to about 1800$.

-Roxio was $29 when customizing the Studio 15.
-As I mentioned, there's a current $250 coupon on Dells site. Like for Like, remove it and your price is fixed.
-Dells Free Service? If you're talking about the free year of support, you get one year of Apple Care included on your macbook purchase. And if you want we can compare Dell service versus Apple - the gold standard of customer service goes to Apple every year.
-Bento is a database program. It's File Maker Pro lite. You don't use it to browse files/folders any more than you would use iMovie to browse files/folders. If you're trying to say Finder sucks, say Finder sucks. With Snow Leopard it doesn't suck nearly as much as the past though (but yes, it still sucks). And to imply Explorer is flawless is silly as well.
-Adding $29 to the mac price for a VGA adapter (the Studio 15 has VGA and HDMI out) brings the mac price up to $1179. The mac is also missing a card reader and a firewire port. Those are marks against it (the card reader isn't available via customizing, thus left off the price) sure. It's still not a 400 dollar price difference.