Yeah I like the one you got the other week, the video demos sounded cool! As for budget nothing crazy but something that'll get me a decent standard regular gigging and recording guitar I guess. The LP Studio is also a mahogany, but can be a bit dark and harsh at times to me, so getting something warmer would be great. Something that'll fill out the mid-range frequencies but still sound low end and punchy in a band mix. Also I've experienced tuning issues (esp live) with LP's, some reason they don't hold tuning perfectly, (maybe its due to the cr@ppy tuners or not stretching in strings before shows haha).
Some stock pickups that come with guitars can be great but I've pretty much switched out them out in every single guitar that I've bought.