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performance a tad – and even then, it still passed the
3,000 mark in PCMark 8 with room to spare. Bottom
line: all the laptops in our comparison are great
everyday computing performers.HandBrake
A considerably more demanding benchmark than the
relatively easy-going PCMark 8, our next test involves
using the free HandBrake utility to convert a 30GB
MKV file into a format suitable for Android tablets. It’s a
multi-core, CPU-intensive, and somewhat lengthy (as in
an hour or more) task that tends to spin up cooling fans.
The laptops with the most processor cores generally
snag the best scores.The C740 is in a virtual three-way tie for third place in our
CPU-intensive HandBrake test, but its performance still
lands in the upper range of our expectations42 TECH ADVISOR • JUNE 2020REVIEW
performance a tad – and even then, it still passed the
3,000 mark in PCMark 8 with room to spare. Bottom
line: all the laptops in our comparison are great
everyday computing performers.HandBrake
A considerably more demanding benchmark than the
relatively easy-going PCMark 8, our next test involves
using the free HandBrake utility to convert a 30GB
MKV file into a format suitable for Android tablets. It’s a
multi-core, CPU-intensive, and somewhat lengthy (as in
an hour or more) task that tends to spin up cooling fans.
The laptops with the most processor cores generally
snag the best scores.The C740 is in a virtual three-way tie for third place in our
CPU-intensive HandBrake test, but its performance still
lands in the upper range of our expectations