Packaging and Accessories

The XMG NEO 15 (E22) and OASIS shipped together in a larger cardboard box, and we will examine the OASIS later on. The NEO 15 (E22) ships in a near-perfect sized shipping box with the necessary warning labels and plenty of foam pieces all around the product box. XMG also included a freebie XMG-branded mouse pad, which is beyond the scope of this review, but was a nice surprise. It's black on one side and green on the other to remind you of the XMG colors. The laptop box is extremely clean with very little to see and composed of a lid over a thick base, which makes for an unboxing experience not that different from a fancy box of chocolates.


Remove the lid, and the laptop is inside a protective sleeve, which can do double duty as a makeshift sleeve down the line, although I'd recommend getting a softer one with more padding. A plastic clamshell fits this assembly snugly, with the laptop coming in a plastic wrap of its own to keep it pristine and free of dust out of the box.


The bottom layer has two compartments with cardboard covers, and these hold two sets of accessories placed in another plastic blister clamshell box; in one, a USB drive with all necessary drivers and product manuals (can every laptop/motherboard/system maker adopt this please?) and various hardware component logos that usually come pre-applied. We also get a full cleaning kit consisting of a brush, microfiber cloth, air duster/blower tool, funnel that seems to have been misplaced from the OASIS packaging, and two dust covers for ports on the laptop, which should have been included with the OASIS, too. Some nice decisions were made here, and I appreciate the cleaning kit a lot. The other compartment holds the laptop power supply, a 280 W Chicony unit on this SKU (any XMG NEO 15 E22 with RTX 3070 Ti or 3080 Ti). A 230 W unit will be included instead if you opt for the RTX 3060 GPU. This sample came with a 2-pin EU plug cable in the box, although you can configure the plug type during order. I just used my own UK plug cable with the same standard C13 3-pin connector used on the power supply. This particular unit is 180 x 86 x 35 mm and weighs a little over 1 kg.