No, you can't have a 4.5ghz 12-thread CPU in a laptop. No, you can't have 3 GTX 480s in a laptop. No, you can't have a RAID 0 SSD array for Windows and programs, a 3TB storage drive, a 1TB games drive, and a 1TB RAID 1 array for your work in a laptop. No, you can't put a sound card in a laptop, nor run surround sound. You CAN have 12 gigs of ram in a laptop, but it tends to be a slower variety. 14 USB ports without using hubs is also a plus. Laptops also tend to suck at multi-monitor support.
And for the record, AMD's mobile GPUs suck. I've got a 5870 in my laptop, and it was all I could do to simply get the drivers to recognize it as an AMD GPU. Performance in the CryEngine Editor? About 12 fps, with some MAJOR stuttering. Photoshop didn't play nice with AMD's Open GL, and no, a 1.6ghz i7 wasn't fast enough to deal with large brushes and huge PSD files. Sketchup was near unusable with higher poly models.
Could *most* people replace their desktop with a laptop? Yeah. Could I? Nope.
--I also realized post-writing that this might come of as very condescending. This was not the intent of the post.--
And for the record, AMD's mobile GPUs suck. I've got a 5870 in my laptop, and it was all I could do to simply get the drivers to recognize it as an AMD GPU. Performance in the CryEngine Editor? About 12 fps, with some MAJOR stuttering. Photoshop didn't play nice with AMD's Open GL, and no, a 1.6ghz i7 wasn't fast enough to deal with large brushes and huge PSD files. Sketchup was near unusable with higher poly models.
Could *most* people replace their desktop with a laptop? Yeah. Could I? Nope.
--I also realized post-writing that this might come of as very condescending. This was not the intent of the post.--
Back from the grave and working on textures.