> The launch hardware costs $1,549
For the same price you can get a MacBook Air with a 1440x900 screen.
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Or $1430 (still over a hundred dollars less) with twice as big of an SSD: http://www.amazon.com/Apple-MacBook-MD232LL-13-3-Inch-VERSIO...
This XPS does have 8GB RAM (versus 4), but that's the only big advantage that sticks out to me.