(05-12-2012, 01:16 PM)Starscream Wrote:(05-12-2012, 01:14 PM)ShadowFlash Wrote: Exactly - laptops are meant to be portable, desktops - more powerful and expandable.
Still thinking inside the box are we? Do you really think an upgradable and more powerful laptop is not just around the corner? You'd be silly to say that it's not. If the past 10 years has shown us anything, it's that portability is king. No one is interested in dragging an anchor around. You'll find out soon enough, there is just no need for giant contraptions when you can do the exact same thing in a much smaller package. It's like an old man who doesn't want to accept that the horse is out and that cars are in, it's quite silly actually.
Still ignoring other arguments, are we?
No, I don't think an easily upgradable laptop is going to exist. Proprietary cooling solutions make sure of that, plus the emphasis on size. As it currently stands, yes you can upgrade the GPU, CPU, RAM or HDD of a laptop -- but everything is so ridiculously tight in tolerances that it's not worth the hassle. Not to mention having to design your own cooling system if the new GPU isn't the exact same layout.
Your analogy is broken anyways: Cars are smaller, faster, more powerful, can carry more, and can run longer without stopping. Laptops cannot store more, have limited run time, and are not more powerful. Even the highest end system you have linked will be outperformed by a cheaper desktop, let alone a high-end server.
A more proper analogy is fans. You can have a wired box fan, or a hand fan. The box fan is big, stationary, but cools better. The hand fan can be taken with you, but won't perform as well as the box fan. Neither one is obsolete, they are used for different situations.
If you're so big on "smaller and able to do the same things" get an Intel phone.... it can run everything a laptop can in a much smaller form factor. You can still hook it up to monitors/keyboards/mice too.
Back from the grave and working on textures.