![]() MORE: 10 Laptops with the Longest Battery LifeĬlick to EnlargeThe $500 Acer Aspire E5-471-59RT does a lot of things right. This was more than an hour longer than competitors such as the ASUS VivoBook V451LA (6:54), Dell Inspi(5:48) and 45 minutes longer than the thin-and-light average of 7:24. ![]() On the Laptop Mag battery test (continuous Web surfing over Wi-Fi at 100 nits), the system lasted 8 hours and 10 minutes. The Aspire E14 boasts prodigious battery life. ![]() This wasn't far behind the more expensive Dell Inspi(37 fps), but below the ASUS VivoBook V451LA (42 fps). In World of Warcraft, the E5-471-59RT managed a playable 35.7 fps at 1366 x 768 and auto settings. Frame rates hovered near 30 frames per second at the notebook's native resolution, but I had to keep the settings on low. ![]() Trying to play a newer game such as Blizzard's Diablo 3: Reaper of Souls was barely manageable. This is faster than the ASUS VivoBook V451LA (5:18), Dell Inspi(5:58) and the thin-and-light average of 6:47.Ĭlick to EnlargeThe Acer E5-471-59RT relies on the integrated Intel HD 4400 graphics, which gives it the ability to smoothly stream HD video and tackle less demanding games. On the Laptop Mag Open Office test, the Aspire-E5-59RT matched 20,000 names and addresses in 5 minutes and 15 seconds. This is faster than the ASUS VivoBook V451LA (23 MBps) but behind the Dell Inspi(31.6 MBps) and the thin-and-light average of 99.8 MBps (which includes systems with SSDs). The E14 copied 4.97GB of mixed-media files in 2 minutes and 54 seconds for a transfer rate of 29.2 MBps. That's good, but behind more expensive competition from the $669 ASUS VivoBook V451LA (2,782 with 1.6-GHz Intel Core i5-4200U and 4GB of RAM), $650 Dell Inspi(2,734, with 1.7-GHz Intel Core i5-4210U CPU and 8GB of RAM) and the thin-and-light average of 4,121. Thankfully, there is a extra open memory slot, which means you can add another 4GB of RAM stick for as little as $40. ![]() There were some hiccups from time to time, mostly because this system had just 4GB of RAM. I had little problem browsing the Web even with five tabs open in both Internet Explorer and Chrome and a game downloading in the background. Click to EnlargeAcer equips the Aspire E5-471-59RT with a 1.7-GHz Intel Core-i5 4210U CPU, 4GB of RAM and a 500GB 5400-rpm hard drive. ![]()
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