While the Core i3 gives a good account for itself, there's another component in the Radius 14 that's more worrying — the 500
GB mechanical drive.
This iMac had the stock 500
GB mechanical drive upgraded to a 1 TB Fusion Drive, adding $ 250 to the price for a total of $ 1,349.
While the Flex 20 feels responsive overall, the 500
GB mechanical drive's slow access times are evident when opening mundane apps like Internet Explorer.
The UX32 model we're reviewing also packs in an Nvidia GT 620M graphics processor and a 500
GB mechanical drive paired with a solid - state cache drive.
Users should be warned, however, that entry - level variants come with a 500
GB mechanical drive that probably won't perform as well as the drive in our review unit.
Not exact matches
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The 11.6 - inch ASUS VivoBook X202 lineup looks to be the more budget friendly of the bunch, sporting low - power Intel Pentium, Celeron or Core i3 processors along with a
mechanical hard
drive and a maximum of 4
GB of RAM.
As I said, I'm on the PS4 Pro and I use an external USB 3.0 Hybrid
drive, which is a 4tb 7200rpm
mechanical drive with 8
GB or SSD built in as a cache — and it still seemed to take a while to load or navigate around.
That's backed by 8
GB of mega-fast GDDR5 RAM, and a 500
GB mechanical hard
drive.
Our review unit, the only available configuration at publishing time, packs in both a 512
GB SSD and a 2 TB
mechanical drive.
As you can see here, the Inspiron's
mechanical 1 TB hard
drive is a lot slower than the G11DF's 256
GB SSD.
The Asus G11DF, on the other hand, ships with two hard
drives — the aforementioned 256
GB SSD, and an auxiliary 1 TB
mechanical hard
drive.
Our review unit was powered by the Intel Core i7 - 6700T with 8
GB of RAM, the aforementioned GTX 960, and a 1 TB
mechanical drive, all for $ 949.
Our entry - level review unit arrived with an Nvidia GTX 970M graphics chip, 16
GB of RAM, and two hard
drives — a 128
GB SATA
drive and a 1 TB
mechanical disk.
Like the Aspire E5 14 - inch, the Z40 offers an Intel Core i5 dual - core processor, Nvidia GeForce 820M graphics, and a 500
GB mechanical hard
drive.
Base versions of the Asus, like the G752VT, have a 128
GB solid state
drive paired with a 1 TB
mechanical drive.
HP offers an HP Pavilion Mini Desktop, and it starts at $ 319 with a faster 500
GB mechanical hard
drive than the Mac Mini offers.
This gets you a mini PC with a 1.4 GHz Intel Core i5 CPU, 500
GB mechanical hard
drive, 4
GB of RAM, and Intel HD Graphics 5000.
If your budget allows, you should buy a laptop with at least a 256
GB SSD in lieu of a
mechanical hard
drive.
You could also use this trick to add a larger
mechanical hard
drive and get more storage than the 500
GB drive that came with your console, if you prefer.
Laying down that cash will net you a notebook packed with an Intel Core i5 - 4200U processor, 4
GB of RAM, a 500
GB mechanical hard
drive with solid state cache, and a 1080p touchscreen.
Our tricked - out review unit came packing not only a 3,820 x 2,160 display but also a Core i7 - 4710HQ processor, 16
GB of memory and a 256
GB solid state
drive joined by a 1 TB
mechanical drive.
A Core i3 processor, 4
GB of RAM, a small
mechanical hard
drive, and so on.
Our review unit housed a 128
GB SSD for the Windows and gaming, and a 1 TB
mechanical drive for data.
The ThinkPad 13's 128
GB solid - state
drive isn't significantly faster than a
mechanical hard
drive.
Right now, Apple sells a $ 1,299 iMac with the same size display, a 2.7 GHz Intel Core i5 quad - core processor, the same amount of RAM (8
GB), a better, Intel Iris Pro Graphics GPU, and a 1 TB
mechanical hard
drive.
Ultrabook scores in PCMark 7 are dictated by the solid - state
drive more than anything else, and the M5 only comes with a 20
GB cache
drive that assists a conventional
mechanical drive.
It's backed up by a 1 TB
mechanical drive with 32
GB solid state cache.
Our review unit arrived with an Intel Core i5 - 4570T processor, 8
GB of RAM, and a 1 TB
mechanical hard
drive.
There were two hard
drives in our review model — a 128
GB Sandisk Z400S solid state
drive, and a 1 TB Toshiba
mechanical hard
drive.
We tested the Level 4 «Ultimate» model, which comes standard with an Intel i5 - 4690K processor, 8
GB of RAM, a 120
GB Samsung Evo solid - state
drive, and a 1 TB
mechanical disk.
The primary OS
drive was a 256
GB Samsung 950 Pro NVMe
drive, backed up by a 1 TB Seagate hybrid
mechanical disk.
I ended up buying a barebones edition and slotting in 8
GB of RAM, a Samsung 960 Evo M. 2 SSD, and a 1 TB
mechanical drive.
You may want to get a Chromebook with a 32
GB SSD or even a much larger
mechanical hard
drive, if you can find one.
A solid - state
drive might cost about $ 0.58 per
GB, while a
mechanical drive might cost $ 0.06 per
GB.
Apple's «Fusion
Drive» is also a hybrid drive, offering 1 TB or 3 TB of mechanical drive space alongside 128 GB of solid - state flash sto
Drive» is also a hybrid
drive, offering 1 TB or 3 TB of mechanical drive space alongside 128 GB of solid - state flash sto
drive, offering 1 TB or 3 TB of
mechanical drive space alongside 128 GB of solid - state flash sto
drive space alongside 128
GB of solid - state flash storage.
A 2 TB hybrid
drive with 8
GB of solid - state cache memory will be more expensive than a simple 2 TB
mechanical drive, but likely less expensive than a 256
GB solid - state
drive with even less total space.
RAM: 16
GB DDR4 Hard
Drive: 2000
GB Mechanical Hard
Drive Hard Disk Memory Size: 120
gb SSD and 2 TB HDD Graphics Card: NVIDIA GTX 1070 Founder's edition Graphics Card Ram Size: 8
GB Hard
Drive Rotational Speed: 7200 RPM Operating System: Windows 10 Home
Processor: Core i7 clocked at 4.2 GHz RAM: 8
GB DDR4 Hard
Drive: 1000
GB Mechanical Hard
Drive Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Graphics Card Memory Size: 6
GB Hard Disk Size: 1 TB HDD Hard
Drive Rotational Speed: 7200 RM Operating System: Windows 10
Our review unit came with a 512
GB solid state
drive along with a 1 TB
mechanical drive.
Asus doesn't offer a precisely similar G752, buy the G752VY, with an Intel Core i7 - 6700HQ, GTX 980M, 32
GB of RAM, 256
GB SSD, 1 TB
mechanical drive, and 1080p G - Sync display, is $ 2,300.
For storage, we have two
drives: a 128
GB solid state
drive, and a one terabyte
mechanical drive.
One excellent example of this double - upgrade is Asus» G750, a 17.3 - inch mammoth packing an Intel Core i7 - 4200HQ quad - core, cutting - edge Nvidia GTX 770M GPU, 16
GB of RAM, and not one but two hard
drives: a 256
GB solid - state
drive for performance, and a 1 TB
mechanical drive for mass storage.
It also comes with a 64
GB solid - state hard
drive, and unfortunately there's no option to configure it with a higher - capacity
mechanical drive.
All versions of the Flex 2 15 come standard with a 500
GB mechanical hard
drive that's paired with an 8
GB solid state cache.
Despite its small footprint, our review system packs in an overclocked i5 - 6600K, 8
GB of RAM, and a 2
GB Nvidia GTX 960, while still finding room for a 240
GB SSD and a 2 TB
mechanical drive.