Kobalt G150 (Clevo P150HM with Geforce GTX485M) Gaming Laptop Review

To test the battery today we put the machine through three sets of real world situations. One as a media movie lover on the move, a person wanting to watch HD media on a train journey or bus with two thirds screen brightness (any less and quality suffers). Secondly as a business man, using the machine for productivity with wireless enabled and balanced power settings with a mid way (around half) brightness setting. Thirdly as a gamer on the move, with the nVidia solution fully active and screen brightness up high.

We were pleasantly surprised by the battery performance of the G150, especially considering the poor battery performance we have received from almost every Clevo-based notebook we've used in the past.  We achieved just shy of three hours when surfing the web and sending emails which is very impressive for a gaming notebook with such high performance components within.  The battery should also provide enough power to watch most blu-ray movies or to game when you have a free hour.

To test power consumption today we are using a plug in power and energy monitor. We loaded the system using Prime95 and Furmark, when gaming,  and when idle.

As with any gaming machine, the G150 draws a significant amount more power than a normal laptop when under load from the 220W AC adapter.  In our tests, we noted a maximum power draw of 201W when the system was fully loaded, a good chunk of which will be coming from the GTX 485M graphics card.  But we have to consider that this is very little compared to the electricity we would expect a gaming PC to draw so your bill won't be quite so high.

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