By price, and by overall power of the pc, yes, very much so, in fact the price difference of possibly (if one even exists) matching a laptop to the $1100 Desktop i posted, that laptop would be well over $4000 (and would basically require to be plugged in a wall at all times to be run)
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/laptop.html
CPU
Intel Core i7-3770K @ 3.50GHz (turbo to 3.9ghz, can be overclocked to 4.5Ghz on air 5Ghz on liquid cooling)
Performance Score 9,652
Price $299.99
Intel Core i7-3920XM @ 2.90GHz (3.5ghz turbo, no idea on overclocking this)
Performance Score 9,502
Price $1,096.00
Video card
GeForce GTX 680M
Performance Score 4,059
Lowest price laptop findable (and available) $2,669.00
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16834152376
GeForce GTX 680
Performance Score 5,504
Price $426.99
Machine i posted earlier, even with the 680 Nvidia video card is only going to cost about $1,600 (with tax, and the cpu listed above)
*update* PC arrived today; I'll post pics an' shit once I get home, still at fucking work.