I bet you have to put the power supply into a freezer.

those people who cant carry around much or are too precious for a heavy load need to mix a spoonful of cement in their tea every morning and harden the f**k up!

Battery life is also a factor, anything 'high performance' in notebooks almost instantly denotes that it will have a battery life of around half an hour. That said, some people may want a light laptop because they carry enough crap around as it is, and a gargantuan laptop won't help that situation.

well... it should beat the pants off an Atom.

Of course, it will weigh about 3 to 4 times as much, too. NV chips run hot, so will this. If you put it on a metal table it should be able to keep your coffee or tea nice and warm.

I would guess it won't be small either, as the space requirements for 3 drives is quite substantial. I suggest they make it 15 inches high and 12 deep and 6 wide, so as to allow for enough room and a decent cooling solution. Heck, beef up the PSU and allow for 2 or 3 optical drives and make the case a nice beige colour. I could seriously get behind that, now.

These are the type of laptops I would get. I hate laptops because they are so focused on being "thin and light" instead of performing decently. I am not a 10 year old girl, I think I can carry a stupid laptop without getting weak knees. Even when I was a kid in school I would tug a 50lb backpack of schoolbooks for at least a 1-2 miles of walking a day. Have people become spontaneously weaker that they cant handle carrying a real laptop? Anyway, I would still replace the 280 with something less powerful, because a 280 is not necessary for a 17" screen. Battery isn't even relevant and I wouldn't care if it didn't even have one, everywhere I go it gets plugged in.

Who in their right mind would touch an Nvidia laptop?

Um... hardly portable is it (well, unless you mean the Osbourne version of portable).

I never understood why anyone would such hardware in a laptop, it's not as if you'd be able to sit it on your lap for extended periods of time without either burning your legs or having them go numb with the weight.

I'd rather spend that sort of cash on a desktop machine myself, at least that way I can upgrade it as I go along.

Not to mention, I've known 2 or 3 laptops bought from Novatech about 3 years ago to have failed already. Might not be due to the quality, it could well be due to the users of the laptops not looking after them too well but I'd certainly look around to see what else there was before buying a Novatech notebook (although I give them a thumbs up that they sell naked PCs).

Rob