The battery held up well enough, delivering a little over four hours - fine, but not exceptional. That said, it converted our standard 11-minute movie for iTunes in a blistering two mins and 38 secs. It delivered a PCMark performance benchmark rating of 1,702, which puts it behind the HP Envy Spectre, Samsung Series 5 and Asus Zenbook.

Just loading games took longer than expected, and while playing Portal on default settings, it only managed to deliver frame rates around the 100fps mark (Samsung's Series 9 for instance, delivered closer to 140).