Lack of affordable FAST laptops
So what's with laptops lately? Either you pay body parts for a bottom tier i5 or i7, pay even more for a custom model with a high end quad core i7, or suffer with underperforming trash that gets smoked by an 8 year old core 2 duo.... what gives? WHY are these garbage cpus being produced when intel could easily release a basic i3 or "Pentium" model which would destroy them all? I can't justify upgrading my 8 year old Thinkpad R61 because its Core 2 Duo T9300 beats or comes within spitting distance of almost every laptop priced under $500. Don't get me started on all the soldered processors and ram blocking upgrade paths... I'd happily accept another 1/8th inch thickness and another $5 cost for sockets.