Originally posted by AlphaTech
25-30lbs (and all the other 'features' you listed) goes against everything that a laptop computer is. If you want to lug around a system, just get a carry strap setup (there are computer places that sell them for people to take their systems to LAN parties). 
Or, just get a new tower, LCD screen and set it all up on the power grid.
Yes, you ARE an oddball wanting a monster 'portable' computer like that. Especially since Apple pretty much has what you want in their tower (or eMac as suggested in jefhornyfield's post ).
There is a big difference between being able to carry a computer somewhere,and being able to use a computer almost anywhere,quickly and effortlessly,without damaging it because it accidently rolled out the back of a truck!
Would you buy a Dual Ghz Quicksilver G4 that had every feature a tower had,only it was built into a oversize powerbook style,ran on batteries,and all packing it up to take somewhere meant was to close the 19" screen and disconnect the peripherals?Sure,I can move my tower and 19" Sony Trinitron around,but add a UPS and a 120 lb marine battery to that and things get a little less than practical!
The only real reason I can see for not manufacturing a "jumbo" portable,is that it would completely cannibalize both notebook and desktop sales by providing the best of both worlds in one unit,and therefore making owning one of each quite uneccessary to most people.
Someone will do it someday,then I will buy it,even if it's a.....PeeCee!
Sorry,kind of off topic,I know.
Back to the world of squeezing it all into an ultra thin CD case,and pondering as to where to squeeze in the last 40 of the 347,986,943,012 transistors.....
