OK ppl lets go to the basics of hardcore gaming :
1- A hardcore gamer always wants to have the newest technologies at hand, therefor a hardcore gamer is always replacing older parts ( 4/6 months old GPU) so anyone who buys a laptop for high end gaming must consider the fact that the upgrade path is almost non-existent and replacing the new 4 month old laptop with a brand new one just for the newer gpu advantage, can get pretty hectic even for some high budgets due to how much money you lose in the process.
2- due to the high heat output of such a high end system I don't excpect it to last long after a long ass session of DOOM III @ max possible resolution, laptops are designed for parts with much lower heat output / weight then desktop parts and therefor the extra research cost adds to the price making it much more expensive than a desktop of the same specs.
3- A hardcore gamer would want to set a balance between mobility and performance you can't sacrefice one on the expense of the other, if you do that in a gaming laptop problems such as it being 12 lb heavy , batteries last just enough to make the laptop burp, then what's the point if you can't carry it around, then get yourself a nice custom built desktop with 4 raptors in raid, 2x crossfire ATI X850XT or Nvidia 7800ultra SLI , and some 4 GB of memory and a sweet $ 400 Lian Li case, and add a vapochill it get that AMD FX-57 /X2 4800 + to 4 ghz and your good to go for life pretty much. that in my point is still a waste of money but it's a better waste than a freaking gaming laptop.
This isn't a hardcore gaming laptop it's made for stupid ppl to shell out their entire savings ( or some rich dck-head that doesn't give a sht) on machine that is BS.