First off, cheers for hijacking my thread and talking about laptops.....

Second, it won't be getting placed near corners. Don't worry about that.

Third, if it was my choice, I would have Windows on it. But he's making it for the recording studio, and he uses Logic, and is very good with Logic, and all he uses is Macs, but doesn't want to shell out a ton for not a very good spec.

xFerior, do you have any information or anything that could help me with selecting the parts specifically? I found cases that take standard ATX motherboards and stuff, I just don't know about fitting in the graphics card and how much cooling it will need. I saw some pics of the guts of some rack PCs, and the graphics cards are mounted from another circuit board thing that comes off the mobo (as the mobo is lying down, but the gfx card needs to be parallel to it, which is impossible without that connecting circuit board between the PCIe slot).

Go make your own thread about gaming laptops please.