My lappy is one inch thick, 2kg, lasts 6 hours on battery and plays BF3 on ultra - which is about as close as I could get to a gaming ultrabook at this point in time. Which is okay for me, but sometimes I regret not getting a thicker, more powerful beast because I actually already have a netbook for mobile work (which has a dying 1 hour battery, so I'm actually more tethered to a plug with the tiny netbook lol).

But I do understand the Desktop Replacement mentality. Most power in something that you can close up and carry around (even if it's the size of a fully packed suitcase).

Unfortunately some people need the battery life for work, the portability to move around easily, the power to game AND don't have the disposable income to get TWO specialized laptops. Hence the need for weird in-betweeners like the GE40, the GS70 and the RE13 - each with it's own set of compromises.