Finding a place in the competitive notebook market is becoming more and more difficult, as the volume of offer is impressive. However, this COBALT mountain, inheritor of the differentiating factors with which this company always signs its designs Spanish, looks like a good bet. It’s not a laptop for everyone, that should be made clear, but it might become the best choice for your target audience.

Let’s remember that Mountain has been excelling for years a small but very careful line of equipment that instead of entering into a price war with large manufacturers (which is impossible due to the volume of production), it bets on great reliability, which is guaranteed by the demanding testing and certification process to which each system is subjected at the end of its assembly.

Another noteworthy aspect is related to expansion-customization options, as well as with multiple maintenance plans that it is possible to enter into a contract and that it guarantees us that even if we have a problem with the computer, in this case with Mountain COBALT, the response time of the technical service to get our operation back on the equipment will be noticeably faster than with many other manufacturers.

So I insist that we are not talking about a computer for everyone, neither in terms of specifications, nor in price, nor in support. However, for users looking for great reliability (even in the face of incidents), workstation performance in a system they can carry under their arm, and also in this case a jump to Intel graphics cards, this may be just what they were looking for.

Mountain COBALT: technical specifications

The first clue that we are dealing with a workstation is when we see the size of its screen, panel 17.3 inches with QHD resolution (2,560 x 1,440 pixels) in an aspect ratio of 18:9 and with a refresh rate of up to 165 hertz. And a very interesting point is found in the GPU because this Mountain COBALT features an Intel Arc770M with 16GB of GDDR6 RAMa risky but interesting bet that aims to take advantage of the interaction between Intel’s CPU and GPU.

Following on from its interior, it is completely new motorized Intel Core I9 12900Hi.e. the most powerful twelfth generation integrated for notebooks, with its 14 cores and 20 threads (six high-performance cores and eight high-efficiency cores), with a maximum frequency of up to five gigahertz, 24 MB L3 cache and with a base consumption (without turbo) of only 45 watts . It is accompanied up to 64 GB DDR5-4800 RAM And until 4TB M.2 PCIe PCI Express 4.0 SSD.

As for its connectivity, Mountain does not state the version in the wireless section, but due to the chip it uses, we can expect at least WiFi 6 (eventually WiFi 6E) and Bluetooth 5.2. As for networks, it is complemented by 1 x RJ-45 2.5 Gigabit Ethernet jack and as for ports, we can find 2 Thunderbolt 4, 2 USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type A, 1 Mini DisplayPort 1.4, 1 HDMI and 1 Minijack audio supplemented MicroSD card reader.

Mountain COBALT is already on sale on the Mountain website and its price starts from 2,749 euros.