To whomever gave me a thumbs down, head over to notebook review's forums and look in the Alienware section for m17 3dmark scores. A score of over 17k has been achieved with overclocked laptop CPU and GPUs - this is the record I believe for that hardware though. Granted, the typical score is close to 15k, but that still is NOT bad. Especially if compared to the desktop 3870x2. After doing some reading it looks like an overclocked laptop with 3870x2 is comparable to a non overclocked Desktop with 3870x2, how is that not something to be considered acceptable?
Also, as a reference point for the GTX280m, my desktop got right at 15k 3dMark06 score last year with the 8800GTS (G92) GPU at 770mhz and the Q9450 @ 3.6 GHz.
And Pei-Chen, why complain? Because it is absolutely dishonest and misleading by Nvidia. They are well aware that they are confusing customers who think they really are getting a comparable GPU in their notebook as they would in a desktop.