More of a daily driver and not a heavy gaming machine

Equipped with an 8th-generation Intel i5 Processor and 4GB of RAM, the Aspire 6 Captain America edition has specs designed more for regular daily use and not for heavy gaming. While it gets some help with an NVIDIA MX150 GPU it does have its limitations when it comes to gaming, which it wasn’t really designed for. It is capable enough when it comes to editing photos – in our test using Lightroom 6, the Aspire 6 Captain America edition took around a minute to convert, process, and export 20 photos from RAW to JPEG.

With its specs, multitasking should not be a problem with the Aspire 6 Captain America edition, though we suggest limiting the number of open tabs in Google Chrome, as it can cause occasional lags. Also worth noting is that the Aspire 6 Captain America edition comes with a 5400RPM hard drive, which plays a factor with its relatively slow bootup time. This is also noticeable when you put the laptop to sleep, so we suggest to wait for a minute or two for the Aspire 6 Captain America edition to go into sleep mode.

 

While the upside of the Aspire 6 Captain America edition is that it comes with a discrete GPU, its application is best for light to medium graphics usage. This was evident in FurMark’s GPU benchmark test, where the temperature went up to as high as 80 degrees Celsius when it is pushed to maximum GPU rendering. At that temperature range, the laptop is warm and can become uncomfortable with prolonged usage especially at the upper portion of the keyboard, near the silver hinge.

Aside from the high temp levels, the MX150 manages an average FPS of 21, making it not suitable for AAA games.

Here’s a benchmark score we got with the MX150 using FurMark:

Given the stats we got, the Aspire 6 Captain America edition is best for light-to-medium photo editing, light video editing, and light gaming.

 

Battery life is above average

The Aspire 6 Captain America edition comes with a non-removable 4-cell 3220 mAh 48wH Li-Polymer Battery that can last for around five and a half hours of casual use that includes web browsing, word processing, a few photo editing, light gaming, and video watching. If you are heavy on photo/video editing or gaming, expect the battery life to dip to around a little under three hours.

The Aspire 6 Captain America edition’s 65W charger is compact, and can fully charge the laptop in around 2 hours.