After september, the i5 would be a better option for mainstream market notebook market, especailly when Intel moves to 32nm production. This is assuming of course that mobile chips come out soon after the desktop chips, but its still plausible.

Good lord, people, will you please stop obsessing about Charlie?

And, will any of these machines be available in a 12.1 or 13.4 inch screen form factor?

Wait for it ... Charlie is going to go troppo over this one.

Remember the last article he wrote about high powered laptops ??

heh heh.

Bet the NVidia mobile chip doesn't last long.

Any laptop manufacturer willing to put an NVidia mobile ship into their laptop obviously doesn't care about their reputation in the marketplace ...

PowerPC, I think someone beat you to it...

Well, this thing aren't laptops anymore, they could be called Portable Personal Computers... Ha. I should copyright this acronim. Else, someone rich will surely do... ;)

Oh, no! Don't tell Charlie!
Someone's sticking an nVidia GPU in a laptop again!
- 'simply the fastest' apparently
- although Charlie would no doubt bitch & moan that it's not really a G200 GPU, but really a re-branded G92, blah, blah, moan!

Battery life doesn't matter much in such laptops. People buy them over desktops for the sake of being able to carry them or to avoid a mess of wires.