Yes, everyone is aware that laptop graphics cards are not as powerful as their corresponding desktop cards wearing the same numbers. The mobility 5870 is somewhere between a desktop 5750 and 5770, and the gtx 480m is comparable to a desktop gtx 465. Nvidia has of course been the most deceptive, albeit the lesser of two evils. They rebranded 8800's for how many years?
And as for your links, they aren't anywhere close to being an accurate comparison of two completely identical machines playing games with the only variable being the mobility 5870 and the gtx 480m cards. If, however, you visit http://www.notebookcheck.net/Computer-Games-on-Laptop-Graphic-Cards.13849.0.html, and select only the m5870 and gtx480m, you'll see that their performance is pretty much identical in real world gameplay, with the two cards winning different benchmarks of different games by extremely tight margins, but mostly being pretty much even. My point still stands that the $1199 Asus G73 from Best Buy is the most bang for the buck when it comes to top end (yet accessible) gaming laptops. The people who thumbed me up know that it would be rediculous to pay $2915 for the same performance. Go configure this laptop with a 500GB HDD, 6GB RAM, wireless and bluetooth, and with a gtx480m, so that it's the same performance as the G73, and you'll see $2915 as the price. Please tell my why you're defending a machine that is equal to another laptop that sells for $1716 less. I could literally buy TWO G73's and still have $517 in my pocket, for the same price as this crap laptop from Clevo.
Methinks my point is still valid and you wouldn't be defending this $3000 laptop unless you were getting paid to.