or that "soon to be mass produced" amiga laptop frame?
Eh? Never heard of that, I don't think anyway. The Paws thing? Or something else? I never considered Paws to be a "laptop". I do very much want a real laptop. I'd love to see a decent Mini-ITX laptop frame, but I could not imagine a decent one by today's standards and gave up on that.
Anyway, do we really need a custom case? My motivation to use a popular intustry standard is that then we don't need a special case. We can use anything from the large variety of cases for this standard. I'd go for the Travala C134 myself.