The 12 cell battery on the 3790 is nasty IMO, but for those that don't mind it, more power to them (no pun intended)
It sucks that it sticks out the back& bottom, its like the laptop has an ass tumor.
As for the 3790 out benchmarking *some* A64 notebooks, it had better if its going to offer such crappy battery life on its standard 6 cell battery.
2.5 hrs (less if gaming) is not the right direction for battery life to be heading for pentium M based notebooks.
being forced to use a 12 cell extended battery to get approx 5 hr battery life is what turned me off this notebook. You may as well go for an A64 based notebook with that battery life...
Anyways, in the end it all doesn't matter, only what features are more important to each user, for me, I would gladly give up 300 pts in 3dmark for twice the battery life on a 6 cell.