Confused - New Dell Package or MBP 13

That's an incredibly lackluster and overpriced desktop build there, especially sans GPU. An i5's integrated graphics will struggle to push 4K pixels.

You know deep down in your heart that you really want a Mac machine.

If you really want a Windows PC, get this:

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1198580

 

Really depends on what you want to do and what kind of mobile needs you have. Obviously the macbook serves a dual purpose as a desktop replacement and a mobile device.

 

Agreed that the PC is pretty overpriced. You should look at pcpartpicker and reddit.com/r/buildapc to get the better bang for your buck with that budget if you really want to do some gaming.

I will say this: If you want to play some heavy gaming with the current titles, I'd say that the price range with the monitor included would be approximately $1000-$1500. That'll leave literally nothing for an Apple computer. However, if you want an Apple computer, I would either wait for the announcement of the new MBP's, and decide then if you want the newly released computers, or the ones released from 2015.

To make this even more complicated, last time I checked on eBay, verified sellers were selling the 8GB MacBook Air 13" for around $850-900, which is a great price for a great Apple laptop.

 

The 13 is sufficient for most photo editing (an external monitor helps obviously). It should be okay for light video editing, though the 15" would certainly give you better render/encoding times with the quad. For office/web type tasks, the 13 is more than sufficient.

 

Depends what you mean by that, it's not going to replace a quad core desktop machine with a decent dGPU in terms of performance.

However it has fairly decent performance can run up to 3 external screens and has good wifi, however you will need adapters for Ethernet connection and a dock can make plugging in screens, keyboards, mice and back up drives a one thunderbolt cable operation for ease of use.