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PCMark 8 Work
2.0 Conventional

The PCMark 8 Work
2.0 benchmark

simulates such routine
desktop activities as
composing text

documents, fiddling
On the left side of the Aspire 5, you’ll find a pair of USB 3.0 Type-A ports,
along with Gigabit ethernet, HDMI, and a USB 3.1 Gen 1 Type-C port. with spreadsheets,
shopping on the web,

video conferencing,
and other day-to-day

activities—in other
words, the routine
desktop chores that

are squarely in the
Aspire 5’s
wheelhouse.
There’s a USB 2.0 Type-A port and a combo audio jack on the right side of the
Aspire 5, but no memory card reader. Generally speaking, a
score of 2,000 or
PERFORMANCE better on the PCMark 8 benchmark means you

With its middle-of-the-road specs, we were can expect smooth Office performance.
expecting middle-of-the-road performance The results were impressive, with this

from this Core i5-equipped version of the particular configuration of the Aspire 5
Acer Aspire 5, and that’s pretty much what we topping our chart of similar Core i5-powered

experienced. The good news is that the laptops in roughly the same price range. The
Aspire’s got it where it counts, putting up Aspire’s PCMark 8 score of a little over 3,500
excellent scores when it comes to everyday easily cleared our low-water mark of 2,000 for

productivity—think web browsing, Office this benchmark, and it even bests the
productivity, playing tunes, and even some numbers of competing laptops that cost

light photo editing. That said, the Aspire’s hundreds of dollars more, although some of
quad-core processor chugs a bit when it those pricier laptops are also much smaller
comes to CPU-intensive activities, particularly and lighter (and thus tougher to keep cool)

video encoding. than the Aspire.

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