I was looking at laptops today (mainly for work) but I wouldn't mind spending a bit extra on one that can run games well too. I don't really want anything as expensive as an Alienware or Voodoo (who don't seem to use AMD 64-bit??), but I just can't find one that has everything I want on it. I would prefer an AMD 64-bit 3400+, 1024MB DDR, Nvidia go6800 256mb PCI-e, DVD+/-RW, 802.11g, Bluetooth, 80GB hdd. I can find ones with the AMD 64-bit processors for £600-£700, but they all have cruddy 64mb FX series grahics cards or a radeon 9700, I can find ones with 6-series cards, but they all have a 1.8GHz Pentium M/Centrino processor etc?? Surely with this being the 21st century, it should be possible to buy laptop components and build yourself rather than having to buy some pre-packaged crap from a mainstream manufacturer that's got its head firmly wedged up Intels fat, greedy a*se ? Surely there's a market for laptops that can be home-built to the builders specification and upgraded when the time comes etc, it can't be vastly more complicated than building a desktop? I know that most laptops graphics etc are on-board, but with all the technological ability available, isn't it time someone came up with a way to devide them up? AMD Athlon XP2200+ Aero7 lite 1GB Crucial pc2700 Abit NF7-s V2.0 80GB Seagate SATA 120GB Seagate SATA Geforce4 Ti4200 128mb Benq FP767-12 17" 12ms SB Audigy 2 ZS

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All of those components produce vast amounts of heat, especially when they are compacted into such a small space. Its just not practicle at the moment, but it will be in the future when the components become more efficient in terms of heat output and size. Manurfacturers spend a lot of time when building laptops; assembling them and getting them to fit. Becuase of this, I really doubt that consumers will be able to build laptops as they do PCs in the near future. Radeon 9800 Pro 128Mb AMD Barton 2800 Asus A7N8X E-Deluxe 1gig PC3200

dell has some nice gaming laptops. 2.8c 800mhz fsb 1 gb 512x2 geil dual channel asus p4p800 se 60 gb ibm 7200 rpm 80 gb maxtor 7200 thermaltake va3000 sapphire 9800 pro 128mb