Mobile or desktop? One of the factors that tilts the balance in favor of the latter is the freedom it allows the user to expand and tweak. You can select components, customize or mod them and, more important, you can overclock.

As appealing as laptops are, they're frustrating for anything more than general PC computing. You can't change bus speed, adjust memory timings or significantly improve the cooling system and gaming is never as good as on a desktop PC. Usually.

From time to time, a model surfaces with some of above mentioned abilities. This is the case of the XPS M1710 reviewed at Anandtech. But as the article shows, you only get a limited control over the CPU, which is a multiplier unlocked T7600G. There's an option between the BIOS that lets you change it from 14X to 19X. That's all. Contrary to what you might imagine, it's not much use because in such an adverse enviroment hotness builds and... throttling happens. At least the marketing boys will have something to shout about but for the rest you'll probably want to stick to overclocking your PC.

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