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

Kobalt supply the G150 in a rather plain brown cardboard box which is a very different approach to the likes of Alienware.  This is no bad thing, though, as it's much less likely to get ‘misplaced' in transit as it doesn't obviously contain over £1000 worth of hardware.  For extra protection, the G150 is packaged within a second box inside the shipping box. The inner box has a handle at the top which makes it very easy to remove.

The bundled items are much more useful than the hat and stickers that Alienware provide with their M17X.  Alongside the comprehensive user manual and driver CD, Kobalt have thoughtfully included a cleaning towel and a DVI-VGA adapter.  Unlike a lot of manufacturers these days, they also include a Windows 7 install CD with the laptop.  This is an OEM version and the product key is affixed to the underside of the machine.

Like we've found with powerful gaming laptops, the included power supply is a brick, which does limit mobility a little.  That said, taking a gaming laptop with a heavy power supply to a LAN event is still a lot easier than lugging around a desktop PC with a monitor and a variety of peripherals.

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