JUNE 2020 • TECH ADVISOR 41activities as web browsing, building spreadsheets,
social networking, and video chat. Because most of
these tasks require only a single CPU core, a laptop
with a six-core processor won’t necessarily enjoy
an advantage over a dual-core laptop. A PCMark
8 score of 2,000 or higher means you can expect
silky-smooth Office performance.
As you can see in our performance chart, the
Lenovo Yoga C740 leads the pack, although to be
fair, all of the laptops in our round-up managed to
snag excellent PCMark 8 scores, including even a
dual-core Acer Aspire 5. While it may seem surprising
that a quad-core, Core i7-packing HP Envy 13 sits at
the bottom of our chart, that’s likely because its thin
and sub-1.5kg design demanded dialing down itsThe C740 tops our PCMark 8 benchmarking chart, which means you
should expect smooth performance for everyday computing tasksJUNE 2020 • TECH ADVISOR 41activities as web browsing, building spreadsheets,
social networking, and video chat. Because most of
these tasks require only a single CPU core, a laptop
with a six-core processor won’t necessarily enjoy
anadvantageovera dual-corelaptop.A PCMark
8 scoreof2,000orhighermeansyoucanexpect
silky-smooth Office performance.
Asyoucanseein ourperformancechart,the
LenovoYoga C740 leads the pack, although to be
fair, all of the laptops in our round-up managed to
snag excellent PCMark 8 scores, including even a
dual-core Acer Aspire 5. While it may seem surprising
that a quad-core, Core i7-packing HP Envy 13 sits at
the bottom of our chart, that’s likely because its thin
and sub-1.5kg design demanded dialing down itsThe C740 tops our PCMark 8 benchmarking chart, which means you
should expect smooth performance for everyday computing tasks