See what you can do when you make an effort, Dell? You come up with a laptop we might want to buy. The new Studio has been announced, and aside from a range of mouth watering colors (on the lid, at least) Dell has sprinkled on a few tasty extras.

As ever with Dell, you have almost too much choice as to what goes inside, but the base models have 15″ and 17″ screens, Core 2 Duo processors with integrated graphics and the usual array of card readers, inbuilt webcams and ports. Prices start at a very reasonable $800 and $1000 depending on size

But it’s what’s on the inside that counts, and Dell is shipping the Studio line with a customized version of Vista, which adds and OS X style dock (pictured below). If you use a Mac, you’ll know the Dock. If not, it’s an application and document launcher. The Studio is looking like a nice alternative to the MacBook (assuming you don’t want OS X, of course).

The product page link below is the the German site — the US one doesn’t appear to be up yet.

Product page [Dell Germany via the whole internet]