first laptop to have a desktop socket. also one panel to change the CPU and also a option for a graphics card!!!! i just read it somewhere! dont have pics for now. but its LGA 775 PORT! yah we can get good desktop CPUs on laptops now!

can you tell us anything / link us to any information about cooling? desktop proccessors need a lot of ventalation to keep cool, i just assumed laptops had a problem with this (thinking of a intel 6600 quad)

AMD is better than Intel in my own personal experience.

My Intel chips I've owned over the years can't last like AMD.

AMD is like the Japanese cars in the automotive industry while Intel is like American cars.
Them Jap cars will run forever with low maintenance, while American cars require constant upkeep.

Socket 775 on a laptop, say hello to outrageous power usages? Not to mention that the chips are NOT designed for laptop use, and require often large heatsinks to function correctly. I don't see any near future in this, to be honest.

i got it from a PC magazine at the mall but i didn't buy it. well oveiously no quad what do you think? but like it has like 4 small fans to cool it down. this is like the first laptop where you can change CPUs , RAM and graphics card no problemo! performance is not its best u know but consider it a first gen.

First gen? I hope not.

Laptops can't be modded because of their size. There's probably only 1-2 CPUs which are even able to run at the poor cooling a laptop performs, and they will never be able to be overclocked. RAM is already changeable, though the actual modding (seperate heatsinks, etc.) will not be an option, and I won't see any desktop VGAs (which are basically the only replaceable ones) in a laptop soon, seeing they're quite large.

asus has commited themselves to making a micro PCI video card though the micro PCI port.

The laptop doesn't look that big, to be honest. It looks nice to customize too, but it looks like it may overheat, because a desktop's power isn't meant for a laptop

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This might be offtopic but when I went over the gizmodo page, I found this:

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Yes, exactly. They're going to have to design a card themselves.

They can make an adapter, although it seems odd.

They're these huge ugly things and that's definitely not the first. A few other manufacturers have been playing around with the same idea for about a year now--the idea is you can plug in a desktop Core 2 Duo or Core 2 Extreme onto a laptop. All you're really buying is a small-form-factor gaming computer (which costs 3x as much for the same performance).

EDIT: I don't have my normal sources on hand, but I know a few others have worked on the same thing. Generally it's not "user-upgradable", but that's just saying that the average consumer won't get a screwdriver and a desktop processor, open the dang thing up, and plug it in. Don't forget most laptops were designed to be replaced every 2-4 years--no need for such an upgrade. Besides--it probably won't work with Penryn processors and it definitely won't work with the further-future Nehalem processors (different socket, different interface, different micro architecture).

EDIT 2: An adapter wouldn't work--they take up too much space. Not to mention the chips and other goodies that up more space to make the adapter work...

I was talking about an external adapter. That's why I said it would be odd.

No more so than an external CD drive.