14 DAY TRIAL // Traditionally, notebooks, laptops and other mobile computer systems sacrificed computing power for the sake of mobility and their technical specifications were almost always on the slow side of the fence. Nowadays, things are looking better for mobile users as hardware manufacturing companies like MALIBAL are creating and promoting what they call the ''desktop replacement notebook'', a computer system that combines the mobility found in laptops with the processing power that is typically found only in high end desktops.
The new Nine Series line of notebooks from MALIBAL is one of those desktop replacement mobile computers as the whole line is powered by Intel central processing units based on a quad core architecture, while providing wide storage opportunities with its maximum of three installable hard disk drives that can be also put in a RAID configuration like 0, 1 or 5.
Thanks to the Intel Core 2 Quad and Core 2 Duo Extreme desktop processors that are found installed in the new line of mobile computers from MALIBAL, those systems are able to perform very well under heavy workloads as they can take full advantage of the multi-threaded processing that is implemented in those Intel processing units. The downside of the Intel desktop intended processors is that they are coming with fewer energy saving technologies implemented than their mobile counterparts and that fact could lead to a faster battery drainage.
MALIBAL created a series of desktop replacement notebooks that are very well equipped with graphics processing units too, as the whole line is coming with discrete graphics cards powered by Nvidia GeForce 8 GPUs that are compatible with the latest Microsoft DirectX 10 API specifications. A big plus of these notebooks is the fact that a wide selection of discrete graphics cards are available to the user, like the GeForce 7950 GTX 512MB (coming in single and dual setups), 8700M GT 512MB GDDR3 or NVIDIA Quadro FX Go 1600M 512MB, which is also DirectX 10 compliant.
"Our latest Nine Series release is the new king of desktop replacement notebooks," said Matthew Plott, founder, MALIBAL. "With desktop-caliber components and next-generation upgradeable GPUs, the Nine Series has ushered in a new era of extreme mobile computing."
A base notebook configuration comes with pretty high hardware technical specifications all the way as it includes a big and widescreen display capable of a native resolution of 1680x1050, an Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 processor running at 2.13GHz, 512MB of random access memory, a single Nvidia made GeForce Go 7950 GTX graphics card with 512MB of dedicated video memory, a 60GB hard disk drive and an optical drive combo unit. As a minimum operation system, there is available the Windows XP Home Edition and the above mentioned base configuration from MALIBAL comes with a price tag of $2,999.