OCZ releases its first Do-It-Yourself (DIY) Gaming notebooks


Yesterday the company unveiled their pioneering Do-It-Yourself (DIY) Gaming Notebook Program

Under this program, users ranging from hardware enthusiasts to mainstream gamers can partake in configuring and building their own gaming-grade mobile solution. The OCZ DIY program enables users to purchase an unconfigured notebook and ultimately customize the system to their needs with the help of guides and direct support.

OCZ intends to offer a true DIY product allowing the individual to garner similar benefits of building a desktop PC:

- Customization – User selects Operating System, CPU, memory, and HDD/SSD of choice

- Value – User can save money by purchasing components individually through sales, bundles, rebates, auctions, trades, etc. Additionally there is no mark-up for labor costs of assembling the notebook

- Craft – User sees the notebook from beginning to end and enjoys building their own notebook, savvy
consumers can go one step beyond and personalize the outlook of the unit, creating a truly handcrafted notebook

OCZ’s first DIY notebook solution delivers an optimal balance of gaming performance and portability. Featuring an Intel® Core™ 2 Duo platform, the OCZ DIY notebook can accommodate the latest CPU technology including the all-new 45nm processors. In conjunction with this state-of-the art mobile processing power, the 15.4-inch DIY notebooks come equipped with NVIDIA® GeForce™ 8600M GT high performance graphics to provide a premium mobile gaming experience that lets gamers rip through all of today’s most advanced and graphic-intensive games and applications.

Among the options included Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR, TV-tuner, a wireless module Intel 4965AGN.

Weight of the laptop nearly 3 kilograms, not least because of 9 - cell batteries.

Cool! :)

Source: OCZ

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2 Responses to “OCZ releases its first Do-It-Yourself (DIY) Gaming notebooks”

  1. evilbelgian
    May 17th, 2008 at 4:09 pm

    Wow, I want a new laptop now. I get the feeling this is still going to be dramatically overpriced though but it is nice to see some diversity in the laptop department nowadays.

  2. topblogger
    May 17th, 2008 at 5:02 pm

    I want it too :) So, there is no restrictions for hardware upgrading, i think so. Now no need to change laptop entirely.

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