Maybe this is not a reaction to Asus's C90S, or maybe it is, who knows? In any case, on September 2nd, Intel plans on reducing the price of their mobile Core 2 processors by a significant amount. Here's the table as extracted from xtreview:

The Core 2 Extreme x7900 (2.8 GHz) that you see here will be presented at that same time (along six more models) and will allow to increase the processor frequency trough a multiplier increase (similar to the T7600G already found on the Dell XPS M1710). The x7800 (2.6 GHz) will be released in July 8th.

"Reduction in mobile core 2 Duo prices will stimulate higher demand for santa rosa platform, which was presented during May this year. To the end of the fourth quarter 2007 Intel plan to bring the portion of processors core 2 Duo (Merom) with 800 MHz system bus to 80% of entire mobile production. The processors merom with 667 MHz system bus will be removed from production during March 2008."

If the price of the x7800 comes down and BIOS permits to change voltages and FSB, we could have something interesting here. Otherwise I fell inclined towards the desktop-processor-in-a-laptop aproach Asus is endorsing.
 

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