Battery life isn’t not bad, either. The Vero has a 48Wh battery and this kept the lights on for just a shade longer than nine and a half hours in our video rundown benchmark. For the record, the battery rundown test was conducted in Eco mode while the performance tests were all run in Performance mode. The Aspire Vero is made with Post-Consumer Recycled plastics (PCR) – reclaimed plastics that have been recycled and repurposed to aid in our effort to reduce global waste. In the real world, this spec sheet translated to a snappy user experience, although in the Geekbench 5 multi-core and PC Mark 10 tests, the Vero did fall behind some of its closed competition by some margin, largely thanks to the multi-core benefits of Ryzen-powered offerings like the HP Pavilion 15 (2020).

Get set with 12th Gen Intel® Core™ Processors2 and up to 10 cores – all optimized for your multitasking and productivity needs.

Intel ® technologies’ features and benefits depend on system configuration and may require enabled hardware, software or service activation. Performance varies depending on system configuration. No product or component can be absolutely secure. If you’re planning on spending your evenings relaxing with a game or two, then the Vero can game given the integrated Iris Xe graphics on offer, but don’t expect it to run AAA titles.

The Kensington 512GB SSD meanwhile proved to be a somewhat mediocre performer, recording sequential read and write speeds of 2,275MB/sec and 1,134MB/sec respectively.This panel with a brightness of 250 nits, is a little dimmer than I would have liked and falls below the usual 300 nit target by just a tad.