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Kobalt Computers announces new range of gaming notebooks

by Parm Mann on 23 January 2008, 14:20

Tags: Mojave IX, Mojave XI, Kobalt

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Prices start from £1365

Kobalt Computers, a UK-based family run business, announced yesterday the launch of two new gaming notebooks with additional mobile multimedia, workstation and professional audio models to follow.

The Mojave IX and Mojave XI (pictured below) notebooks are both available immediately and are based on Intel's Santa Rosa platform.

Mojave XI

The Mojave IX, starting from £1365, has a base specification that features a 2.1GHz T8100 Intel Core 2 Duo, 2GBs of 667MHz DDR2 Ram, a 512MB GeForce 8700GT, a 100GB hard drive and a host of connectivity options.

The Mojave XI, starting from £1705, cranks up the power and has 2.4GHz T8300 Intel Core 2 Duo, 2GBs of 667MHz DDR2 Ram, a 512MB GeForce 8800GTX and a 160GB hard drive. Again, various connectivity options and optional upgrades are available - at a cost.

Both notebooks feature a 17" WUXGA display with a 1920 x 1200 resolution. Offering as much choice as you'll need, Kobalt also claim to be "the UK's only notebook manufacturer to offer the choice of DVD, HD-DVD or Blu-Ray drives".

Kobalt's Managing Director, Andrew Richards said: "We are excited to be expanding the Kobalt brand into the notebook market, to which we can bring our expertise in custom building and first class customer service".

If you're tempted, head on over to kobaltcomputers.co.uk where you can configure your Mojave notebook just how you like it.

Official press release: Kobalt Computers announces its new range of Mojave notebooks
Official product pages: Mojave IX and Mojave XI



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Hmmm looks to use the same chassis as the Rock Xtreme 770, similar prices too and the rock comes with 3 years warranty as standard,

I've never actually heard of kobalt either which doesn't help the situation for me.
Both use the Clevo M57RU chassis. It seems fairly popular, probably in part to the fact that it is obscenely easy to work with, you can go from a barebones chassis to a fully built system in 10 minutes once you know what you are doing.

Additionally there is a nice variety of GPU options for it, and the build quality and asthetics are both improved compared to their equivilant Napa generation 17“ design.

Too big for my tastes but as 17” laptops go they are quite nice.
Alienware have a 15“ 8800GTX based gaming laptop on the way ;)

Also if you can get them Gateway are doing some seriously cheap 15” 8800GTS models but that's only in the states at the moment I think.