I once had a laptop. I've been opening up PC's for many years now, and I find it difficult to work easily in micro-ATX systems, but for some reason, I decided that it'd be easy to futz around in a laptop. It didn't work at the time, so I dilligently went to the task of making it work. I wanted to upgrade it, but found out real fast that, as far as opening them up for upgrades go, they're total bitches. I eventually, while trying to figure out how to access the bit I needed, snapped something. I've not yet been able to determine what I snapped first seeing as frustration ultimately brought me to the point of hammer+crappy-laptop=wirey mess. I'm just glad it didn't work when I got it, because it really didn't work afterwards. Bottom line, as far as I'm concerned, Laptops are something to be bought, not built or upgraded. Portable, but from my experience, impossible.