PC World - USA (2021-03)

MARCH 2021 PCWorld 59

crashed every time I tried to play it).

BATTERY LIFE

Acer went with a middle-of-the-road 56–watt-

hour battery for the Porsche Design Acer

Book RS, essentially splitting the difference

between optimizing portability and battery

life. Based on our battery test results, that was

a wise choice.

We test battery life by looping a 4K video

using the stock Windows Movies and TV app,

with screen brightness set to roughly 250 nits

and with volume set to 50 percent,

headphones on.

Yes, it’s another solid third-place result for

The Porsche Design Acer Book RS squeezed more

battery life out of its 56–watt-hour battery than

competing laptops with more battery capacity.

Battery Life

(Video Rundown)

Minutes

Lenovo Yoga C640-13IMLCore i3-10110U

Dell XPS 13 2-in-1 9310Core i7-10610U

Porsche Design Acer Book RSCore i5-1135G7

Acer Swift 5 SF514-55TA-74ECCore i7-1165G7

Acer Swift 3 SF313-52-78W6Core i7-1065G7

Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 7 14IIL05Core i5-1035G1

Dynabook Portégé X30-LCore i5-10210U

Asus ZenBook Flip S UX371ECore i7-1165G7

HP Envy 17t-cg000 8MX93AVCore i7-1065G7

LONGER BARS INDICATE BETTER PERFORMANCE

985

784

807

862

645

789

537

431

557

With its integrated Iris Xe graphics core, the
Porsche can deliver impressive graphical
performance for content creators, although
gamers will be less impressed.

3DMark Sky

Diver 1.0 Overall

Graphics performance

Acer Swift 5 SF514-55TA-74ECCore i7-1165G7

Dell XPS 13 2-in-1 9310Core i7-10610U

Porsche Design Acer Book RSCore i5-1135G7

Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 7 14IIL05Core i5-1035G1

Asus ZenBook Flip S UX371ECore i7-1165G7

HP Envy 17t-cg000 8MX93AVCore i7-1065G7

Acer Swift 3 SF313-52-78W6Core i7-1065G7

Dynabook Portégé X30-LCore i5-10210U

Lenovo Yoga C640-13IMLCore i3-10110U

LONGER BARS INDICATE BETTER PERFORMANCE

15,343

11,119

13, 589

14,595

10,401

12,3 0 4

8,033

4,470

4,285

using the 3D Mark Sky Diver 1.0 benchmark.
Again, the Book RS lands more or less
where we expected, right in the mix with two
of the three Core i7 Tiger Lake laptops in our
roundup. Designed to match or surpass such
discrete graphics cards as the GeForce
MX350, the Intel Xe integrated graphics core
should pay dividends for content creators
performing on-the-go Adobe Premiere chores.
Just don’t expect it to crank out buttery
gaming visuals. We were able to squeeze only
30 fps out of Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor
at the “Ultra” graphics preset, while its lack of
support for multi-GPU rendering rules out
more modern games like Destiny 2 (which