College Laptop

I've been looking at the following:

MSI Entertainment Series EX300
P7350 @ 2GHz 3MB Cache
4GB Ram DDR2
13.3" Monitor
HD3450 Ati
250GB HD
8-cell Battery

1481$

Dell Studio 15
T4200 @ 2GHz 1MB Cache
4GB Ram DDR2
15.6" Monitor (With TrueLife +Full HD)
Integrated 4500MHD
160GB HD
9-cell Battery

1614$

The dell comes with 3 year insurance, whilst the Msi comes with 2 years store-insurance.
The dell has backpack with it, fancy new intel wireless card (Intel WiFi Link 5300-Centrino) and its RED design (supports aids in africa.)

I can upgrade gpu in dell but its like 250$ for the cheapest upgrade. Also monitor is downgradeable to standard WXGA but limits
resolution to 1366x768.

Heres the msi.
http://www.laptop4u.dk/varer.php?vare=91107

Since dell is customized I cant link.

Any feedback on the brands is appreciated and/or personal experience with the laptops itself or others from the brands.
Any other opinions on other laptops also appreciated. Note that beautiful design is highly appreciated. Not boring grey/black.

If questions please ask.

I'm not too good on laptops but I say go for the dell.

BUMP!

i think these are expensive for no apparent reason.even around here you can get a core2due 2.4Ghz,4gb of RAM,16" monitor for 100$ at most.and for college at maximum you will need to run MatLab,Java or C# IDEs, Orcad simulation...etc and all of these works perfectly with my modest PC.dont listen to these deals they are bad.

look,personally i dont have a laptop,but what i see with other students at unvirsities, i can tell you Dell will litrally seel you just a name with nothing special.i would say go with an ASUS one,its so dam cheap and cool,with gaming options not expensive.i study computer engineering and we use computers extensivly with heavy software,and the specification i mentioned are suffecient and can be achieved cheaply