All in all, the Kobalt Comanche SLI gaming notebook is like pretty much every other gaming notebook on the market for the most part. It has the usual draw backs of being big and heavy, with a poor battery life, but the perks of being ostensibly portable, compact and undeniably good looking.

Going within, the hardware is unfailingly impressive. There's an intimidating SLI set-up that can handle the latest games at high resolutions and there's so much hard drive space that you could probably put all the porn in the world and still have some wiggle room left over.

There are issues, as always. The machine doesn't massively outperform the competition despite the technical spec that's longer than my arm and the amount of heat that comes rippling out of the chassis is likely to leave you seeing mirages unless you have a glass of water inadvisably close by.

Still, as an extension of your e-peen and as a unit in itself Kobalt's Comanche SLI holds up nicely, with some lovely extras and enough hardware to last it into the next decade without hitting any barriers. Hopefully.