Dhruin
SasqWatch
Hehe, well, my personal "old sk00L" opinion on the matter is that notebooks to gaming is like when an Italian brings a knife to a gun fight… wrong tool for the job and all that .
But, seriously, I know that the reality is completely different, of course. The only reason the big PC builders (Acer, Dell, Lenovo etc.) aren't all out of business yet is sales of mobile computers as desktop replacements. And they are selling more notebooks every day while the number of desktops is dwindling.
You're right in every respect - including the sales of notebooks as desktop replacements. I accept that desktop gaming will always have the edge but everyone - hardware makers and software developers alike - would do well to accept that notebooks are becoming a serious chunk of the PC market. Scalability is one of the cornerstones of the success of WoW and Facebook gaming and so on.
At any rate, I wouldn't have bought Arcania even if it did run on my laptop. I'm still boycotting Dreamcather.