This makes the Aspire 3 faster than the card reader in the The Acer Aspire 3 has an Intel Dual-Band Wireless AC3168 module with Bluetooth 4.2. You wouldn't want to spend a day in a video-editing suite with the Aspire 3, but it does have the muscle for the occasional video-editing task without making you wait for long stretches for it to finish rendering.We also run a custom Adobe Photoshop image-editing benchmark. For more information about this CPU, please click The Aspire 3 kept up a constant performance during the entire testing period of our Cinebench R15 benchmark. It lasted only 5 hours and 33 minutes, at least three hours shorter than the next-best laptop in this competitive set. Still, with frame rates below the 30fps goal for smooth gameplay even at 720p, you'll need to keep your gaming expectations in check.After fully recharging the laptop, we set up the machine in power-save mode (as opposed to balanced or high-performance mode) and make a few other battery-conserving tweaks in preparation for our unplugged video rundown test. Although the keyboard deck and back panel flex inward a bit when you grip the laptop and pick it up, the keyboard itself feels solid underneath my fingers. The display cover is also well made, but is rather thin and made of light plastic, which means it is easy to warp.
This frequency was then constant for the remainder of the test, which was about 45 minutes. Notably, the Asus VivoBook S15 endured more than twice as long.Thanks to its AMD Ryzen 5 processor and integrated Vega graphics, this Aspire 3 loadout impresses with some Alas, the battery life and the body are not up to snuff. The difference went down to 3 to 4% in the multi-core test.The results of the PCMark 3 benchmark place the Aspire 3 right in between the other comparison devices. We did not measure any PWM flickering.The black value has a deviation of about 50% from the optimal value. Silver Acer logos on the lid and bottom bezel, plus a pair of AMD stickers below the keyboard, are the only exceptions to the monochrome design.At 4.3 pounds, the Aspire 3 forces you to carry a few more ounces than the 3.7-pound That said, the hinges that hold the display feel sturdy enough. This can be expanded to three years for about $50. Subsequently, my 12-year military service began, during which I learned a lot and kept my knowledge constantly up to date with the latest technology. The Editors' Choice-winning Asus VivoBook S15 S530UA retains its belt as our current budget pick. Acer offers a 24-month warranty for the Aspire 3. Windows booted quickly, apps loaded with snap, and I found a fair degree of multitasking possible before performance started to bog down (and the cooling fan kicked in). Our Wi-Fi test is a lot more realistic. Cinebench stresses the CPU rather than the GPU to render a complex image. The test unit could keep up its full performance on battery, but you can notice the missing dual-channel RAM.The Aspire 3 is not suitable for PC games. Audio output is tinny, with barely enough oomph to project across a small room. (For example, see our review of the Next up is another synthetic graphics test, this time from Unigine Corp. Like 3DMark, the Superposition test renders and pans through a detailed 3D scene and measures how the system copes. If PWM was detected, an average of 17886 (minimum: 5 - maximum: 2500000) Hz was measured.Content begins to be unstable from a viewing angle of 45 degrees. It lacks any newer-style USB Type-C ports, and it has more USB 2.0 ports than USB 3.0 ports. Also, when stroking it, the pad wobbles without being clicked, which makes performing an Given the dodgy touchpad, I had hoped to avoid using it and instead rely upon touching the screen for some input. The test generates a proprietary numeric score; higher numbers are better.