Because I take my laptop to allot of friends places and trade files etc. Do some gaming, or watch a movie or something on a long trip, (I have a car charger).
Even though my car has a DVD head unit... It wont play back DivX or Xvid.
Besides I have a desktop, It hardly gets used though, Usually only if I have a friend over from Adelaide or something, we do some network gaming.
And it sure as hell beats Lugging my Thermaltake Xaser 2, Athlon XP system around >.> That thing weighs a ton! Plus its also energy efficient. And when the power goes out, (Happens often enough down here) I can still game, While everyone is lost and bored
And I also Lugg it from different rooms in the house or outside even, For instance, On a nice cool night after a stinking hot day, nothing beats sitting outside on the grass, Playing StarCraft, With a bundy and coke. (Alcoholic).
I usually have it sitting in the lounge room on a desk connected to my ADSL,
But every night I take it into my bedroom, lie in bed and watch a movie, or Sit on you tube by bludging off next door's wireless. (Its not illegal I asked for they're permission, And its payment for keeping they're computers running nicely).
I would never trade a desktop for mah laptop.
You also have to understand laptops can be over clocked as well
I will nevah play a game, Unless its at least 800x600.
If I am able to play Oblivion (The most demanding game for PC currently I think) then I'm sure I have a decent chance of getting crysis to run with some heavy tweaking of Vista.
Besides I'm waiting for the game "Spore" Anyone played Evo for Snes back in the day? Think of it as an enhanced version of that
And I think the Crysis engine will be optimized considerably if FarCry was anything to go by.
If not I'm going to the bank to get another loan to get another laptop to last me for the next few years.
Oh and by the way the Core 2 Series of processors is based upon the Pentium M ^.^
Besides any Core 2 processor should be able to handle any game currently rather easily, My Pentium M 2.0Ghz single core can. (Rated as a 3Ghz Processor according to vista).