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The future! (wouldn't that be nice?)

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Melodic:
There's a reason they don't really make gaming laptop rigs.

Sure, you can CALL them gaming laptops, but the point remains that they're standard mobiles with bigger GPUs, less battery life, and even worse heating issues. End-user laptop building is the first step to laptops as viable gaming platforms.

Statik:
In my experience, they get hot when you are running GPU intensive games, otherwise they aren't too terrible.

I really don't think that you are going to stave off any of those problems (heat/battery) by having the user able to build them.  I don't think that laptops will ever be the "choice" for a dedicated gamer for some time.  The only realistic advantage I can see is the ability to personally upgrade your GPU(s) to extend the longevity a bit.  Otherwise, you are probably still looking at an expensive case and very expensive components (comparatively). 

Side note:  I'd be curious to see if Splashtop (the super low footprint OS built into mobos) is going to make it to laptops.  Also I think HP had a thing where you could boot up and play a DVD without getting in to the OS.  Laptops would definitely need more things like that.

Melodic:

--- Quote from: Statik on 31 Aug 2008, 16:03 ---In my experience, they get hot when you are running GPU intensive games, otherwise they aren't too terrible.

--- End quote ---

Like when you play games on 'em? ; )

Also, I'm fairly confident that there will be at least a handful of techies making laptops that exceed what a normal laptop is capable of. Custom cooling systems might make a scene, and this will open up the market for the big 2 to create better aftermarket laptop GPUs.

est:
I am constantly in awe of what some modders can achieve with desktop rigs.  They make their own cases, radiators, pumps, custom waterblocks, and find new and improved ways to do things that most of us just take for granted.  I have no doubt that once laptops have some kind of DIY configuration these guys will tear shit apart, mod it to hell & inspire a bunch of off the shelf upgrade kits for laptops as they already have in the desktop scene.

Also, you can mod gfx cards in certain subtle ways to improve their performance.  I've only re-flashed my bios to change default fan speeds (and as a result my card runs ~20 deg C cooler) but you can change out the default fan entirely to a higher-quality one if you want.  Some guys remove and re-solder higher-quality parts onto their cards to improve stability for overclocking and such, as well as hardware volt-modding to over or under-volt as required.  If there were more DIY options for laptops I am pretty sure that this could be done to unlock laptop gfx cards to such a degree that they can be underclocked for normal usage then knocked back up to stock or overclocked with higher-quality heatsinks and fans running at faster fan speeds when gaming.  Sure, the fans will scream at you for a while, but what do you expect, you're playing a game on it.

Alex C:
I just don't see how they're going to conquer the basic surface area problems without making something unwieldy or hideous to look at.

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