HP was stingy on details about the SSD, but Windows reports the drive as Samsung’s MZMPA128HMFU, better known as the PM800, a year-old mSATA module found in various systems by Samsung, HP, Dell and others. It’s powered by the Samsung S3C29MAX01 SATA 3Gb/s controller (same as in 2010’s Samsung 470 Series SSDs) and offers respectable performance with peak reads and writes quoted at 250MB/s and 210MB/s. The single SO-DIMM slot is maxed out with 4GB of DDR3 RAM which is plenty for tasks an ultrabook is likely to face. That aptly summarizes the system’s overall performance: it’s very fast for anything within realistic expectations (i.e. not maxing out Skyrim). When browsing, playing casual games or using apps like MS Word, Fireworks or Postbox, I can’t spot a notable difference between the Folio and my desktop.
The iTunes encoding tests consist of converting 14 MP3s (119MB) to 128Kbps ACC files and measuring the operation’s duration in seconds. For the file transfer test, we measure how long it takes to copy two sets of files from one location to another on the same hard drive. On the small files test we transfer 557 MP3s, totaling 2.56GB. For the large file, these same MP3s were zipped into a single file measuring 2.52GB.
13.3" 1366x768 LED-backlit display Intel Core i5-2467M (1.6GHz - 2.3GHz) 4GB DDR3 SDRAM Intel HD 3000 Graphics 128GB SSD (Samsung PM800, SATA 3Gb/s) Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
13.4" TFT 1366 x 768 display (with Corning Gorilla glass) Intel Core i5-2520M (2.5GHz - 3.2GHz) 4GB DDR3 SDRAM Intel HD 3000 Graphics Hitachi 320GB 7200RPM hard drive Microsoft Windows 7 Professional (64-bit)
14.5" HD BrightView Infinity LED 1366 x 768 display Intel Core i5-2430M (2.4GHz - 3GHz) 6GB DDR3 SDRAM AMD Radeon HD 6630M Western Digital 750GB hard drive Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit)
