Keep in mind that a notebook really can never be what a desktop is to most people. There are severe limitations in how far you can upgrade and the computing power is for the most part going to trail the best of what the desktop field has to offer. Granted there are those outrageously large notebooks that are designed to allow for CPU, GPU, hard drive, and optical drive upgrades, they are few in number and you can be sure that you will be stuck within the original notebook's motherboard/chipset.
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