Performance
The 8300 comes equipped with an Intel Core i5 quad-core processor at 3.2 GHz and 4 GB of memory and a Western Digital WD5000AAKX 500 GB hard drive. The system is very responsive, and 4 GB of memory is pretty reasonable for most home and office tasks. The Windows Experience Index for this system is 4.8.
The Core i5 also comes with graphics built-in, and delivers reasonable display performance until you get to 3D. The 3D Mark Performance benchmark yield lackluster performance, but then again, this isn't designed to be a gaming machine. The overall 3D Mark score is P421.
The PCMark benchmark provided an overall result of 2481.
For Disk I/O, the ATTO disk benchmark rated the system at between 130 and 140 MB/second for the larger packet sizes.

An interesting thing that the 8300 includes is face recognition for access security. You can train the system to recognize your face through a series of photos in multiple head positions take through the webcam. When it's time to log in, the system will scan your face and compare to one or more "scenes" of photos to see which user you are and log you in automatically.