Kobalt Comanche SLI

Originally Posted by andrew@kobalt

Here's one with the Green-Purple-Blue option.

looks about 50 times better than the red one;)

It looks so much better in black/green that red...


Anyway, I can't really see what people see in these "laptops" (having them on your lap will probably obstruct the blood flow to your legs...), but they seems to be pretty popular, actually.

And WHY does manufacturers put these glossy screens on computers? They are useless unless you sit in a dark room! (OK, so they look sharper, but it's not worth it in most cases.)

Originally Posted by OleJ
The question is "does it blend"? Or even more crucial: Will you be able to pass airport security with it? Which again leads to the question whether it actually exceeds the max weight of carry-on with some companies...

Oh and they should've asked a designer for help on making that coloring work. It really looks like cheap plastic...

Probably not. You'll get arrested for trying to steal the "black box" from a plane... (The black box isn't black)

all the glitter and spec's are nice but in the end ouch the price, me I'll take the box I just built with all the latest that interests me for just under
$1200 usa

I’m not the type of person who likes to make a big show of things for the most part, and in any given situation my default behaviour is simply ‘Camouflage’.

Heh, I totally understand. That thing's not going to blend in no matter what color you paint it, though.

One of the more common uses I've seen for laptops like these is for soldiers on deployment - they can't take a full size computer with them (too big and it'd never survive shipping), but want something capable of gaming. Monster laptops are certainly not my cup of tea, but I guess they have their place. They're interesting as proof-of-concept pieces at the very least.

Originally Posted by TGImages
"And who watches a dead duck? Nobody, not even its mother. She just flies off, depressed. "

Actually, with ducks and geese, if one dies, its mate will often stay by the body for quite awhile. I've witnessed a male "standing guard" over its dead mate right in the middle of a six lane highway. When something causes a migrating goose to have to land (or it is shot by a hunter), its mate often follows the body down and frequently another pair may also follow them down too.

OK, back to your regularly scheduled comments.

You really need to watch Alan Partridge....

A gaming laptop is such a strange beast, before getting a laptop I never got the idea of a "desktop replacement" but I can now see how sometimes it would be nice. I think if you have the money for a machine like that, then why not. You probably also have the money for a sub NB for train journeys and the like, though I imagine you would have a pretty sweet car if you could justify spending nearly 3K on a lappy.

I am glad companies make these laptops and people buy them, because it pushes the mobile technology even further, I can see that in the not too distant future those sorts of specs could become the mainstream midrange laptops.

such high power-hungry GPU with 3 hard disk will never become midrange, only the performance of it will.

and speaking of performance, desktop offers better with lower price and money left over for a 20 year old's car insurance.

the best combo would be: beast gaming rig (that can at least play Crysis on High with a single graphics card) + iPhone :)

that thing is a big ugly red beast!

nice laptop more money than any sain person will spend

Originally Posted by andrew@kobalt
Hi Guys,

Thought I'd drop in, say Hi and respond to a couple of points.

I can understand the Red isn't to everyone's tastes. It's very difficult to get a good colour that will appeal to as many people as possible. Most of the other painted cases we've had reviewed were blue so we wanted something different. This Red is actually the offical Ferrari Red and isn't as garish in normal light than it is under studio lights. With the glossy finish the colour can tend to bleech a bit under bright light.

You can actually choose any colour you like, we have a full selection of about 20 colours and other things like colour shift which look amazing. It is not painted as standard and if people don't like the red then that's fair enough.

Hi Andrew and welcome to the forums :) Awesome of you to respond.
Now that I know the company is looking I think it would only be fair to explain my comment on the lack of design on your thing.
Firstly: The images do absolutely not do your product justice. They could be miles better. But! Secondly: When you use a color like the Ferrari red you need some contrasting details (think black details/stripes/etc) to enhance and define the shape otherwise you end up with something looking like a (danish) royal mailbox. The red needs to be "locked down" so to speak... it's a visual thing and explaining it via text in a foreign language is a challenge... I hope you or perhaps your designers see the point. Taking a product and dipping it in red paint (or yellow or blue or whatever) isn't a very well thought out solution (in my honest opinion) especially when the shape of your product is as aesthetically bland as yours is.
What it means is that when you have something with an un-attractive shape don't paint in one uniform screaming color.
To make a metaphor around it: A bulging ugly girl isn't going to have the looks of a super model just because you dress her in a "the original" Ferrari (R) color jumpsuit. In that case you'll want to at least apply some eye-liner and details to the clothes to make it "work".

Cheers :)

Q9540=Q9450?

Originally Posted by andrew@kobalt
We also offer it with a single card, single hard drive, dual core desktop processor and a single graphics card.

Do you mean to say that you are using desktop processors in a laptop? That might go some way to explaining the battery life!
Anyway, this product is not for me and I echo the comments about the colour (good point Olej)
One of the major minus points of a gaming laptop is that there is no easy way to overclock them, and if you do, then he cooling won't be adequate.

Yup we offer desktop Dual and Quad Core Processors up to the E8600 and the Q9650. It certainly does help explain battery life but that's because it's based on a desktop platform (P965 chipset with SLI) rather than a mobile platform (i.e Centrino / Centrino 2)

Ooh, a P965 with SLI? Does that also mean that you are using the NVidia PCIe bridge chip then?
Thanks for the quick reply though, very impressive! It must be a good cooler to cool a Q9650 and fit in a laptop.

not bad but for the price i'm sure you could get a better spec laptop i actually prefer i normal pc which i can build and mod myself

Am I the only one that can see that this laptop looks almost actually same as a Alienware Area 51 m7700 ???? i have that alienware and its just sitting there and not working at all!