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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.
that 480 is a monster. I dont mind those keyboards, I know the reviewer didnt seem to like them, but they work well for me.
Nice looking machine, good all round spec for gamers.
Uk only delivery on their machines I take it?
We have the atom version of this, well it looks a bit different, and its very good. well made products.
@Seveish, Kobalt will deliver to most of europe and probably farther afield if you ask them nicely 🙂
@ Seveish, Kobalt Ship worldwide 🙂
Thumbs down Don’t buy from Kobalt Computers
No communications, no contact, plenty excuses, but no laptop and after 10 weeks time has run out. I cannot stress enough how disappointed I am with the level of customer service and disregard shown. After paying a large sum for a premium product and to receive nothing but excuses and empty promises this is totally unacceptable.
And it’s not like I can review the product as I cot nowhere near one, the review and pictures look good, but what’s the use of that when you’re 3K out of pocket… Keep well clear of these cowboys…
An Alienware would have been better than this…