DECEMBER 2019 PCWorld 85Overall, that checks off most of our boxes
in the ports department. Sure, a Thunderbolt
3 port would have been nice, but you
generally won’t see one in a laptop this
inexpensive. The 4-in-1 memory card reader is
a welcome upgrade over the typical microSD
card slot, and USB-C lets you connect a
reasonably speedy external storage drive.
PERFORMANCE
With its quad-core Intel Core i5 processor,
8GB of RAM, and integrated graphics, the
S340 has all the hallmarks of a productivity
workhorse—in other words, a machine that’ll
cruise through Office chores and occasionally
put the pedal to the metal when multi-core
power is required. As you’ll see in our
benchmarks, the S340 doesn’t disappoint,
and we were pleasantly surprised by a couple
of its chart-topping results.PCMark 8 Work 2.0 Conventional
Given that most users of the Lenovo S340 will
be using it as an Office and general
productivity machine, our first benchmark
results bear good tidings.
PCMark 8 is designed to simulate such
daily computing activities as composing word
documents, tinkering with spreadsheets,
online shopping, and video chat. A PCMark 8
score of 2,000 or
higher generally
means a system can
run Office without
breaking a sweat.
As we can see,
the Lenovo S340
leads a pack that’s
bunched relatively
close together, with
every laptop in the
chart breaking the
3,000 mark. In other
words, all the
systems in our
comparison will
handle Office with
ease, including that
Lenovo ThinkPad atThe Lenovo IdeaPad S340-15IWL put up impressive numbers in our PCMark 8
Work 2.0 Conventional benchmark.
Lenovo IdeaPad S340-151WL
(Core i5-8265U)
Acer Aspire 5 A515-54-51DJ
(Core i5-8265U)
Lenovo IdeaPad 730S-131WL
(Core i5-8250U)
Acer E 15 E5-576G -5762(Core i5-8250U)
Asus ZenBook 13 UX331UA(Core i5-8250U)
Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 6 14 (2019) (Core i5-8250U)
Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 6 14 (2018) (Core i5-8250U)
Acer Aspire 5 A515+54-30BQ
(Core i3-8145U)
Lenovo ThinkPad L480
(Core i5-8250U)PCMark 8 Work 2.0
(Native resolution)LONGER BARS INDICATE BETTER PERFORMANCE3,5623,3033,4313,2913,5063,2923,3383,224
3,150