

Fortunately, there's still plenty of room on both sides of it and we didn't find ourselves accidentally brushing it while typing. This in turn means that the touchpad, positioned beneath the space bar, is offset from the laptop's centre line. The laptop is broad enough to ensure that nothing feels too cramped, even though the full numeric keypad is somewhat squashed over to the right. There's not too much flex in the lid and the interior's smooth finish is comfortable to rest your wrists on.

In terms of form and feel, the X502 is excellent. Its terrible score of 12 in our multitasking test starkly shows the limitations of the underpowered processor. It only feels a touch sluggish when browsing the web, watching movies and creating documents, but if you spend a lot of time carrying out processor intensive tasks such as media encoding, then this definitely isn't the laptop for you.

It's powerful enough to handle Windows 8 desktop applications, but feels slow logging into your user account or loading Windows’ default media players. It only has two cores, which makes it rather underpowered, producing an overall score of just 18 in our benchmark tests. The processor itself is an Intel Celeron 1007U running at 1.5GHz.
