Hi, i want to know in wich this does the windows8 is installed? in one of the ssd? or in the hdd?
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It's the ssd. If you right click on the c drive and note the space it will give it away, because the hdd is 1 TB.
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The ssd's are raided together so you can't tell them apart through the software and the OS is installed on them. The other drive is called Data and is completely free.
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Hey, there is nothing installed in the hdd so win8 is installed on the ssd.
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It came with the Win8 std version. But I've already upgraded to 8.1 for free at MS Shop
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I bought one in March. Put an SSD drive in it and love it. It has NO extra software, except HP stuff and a DVD Player Ap (Cyberlink). It comes with Windows 7 loaded and working, with Windows 8 setup discs if you want to go that route, and with Windows 7 setup discs which I used to install Windows 7 on my ssd drive. (The Windows 7 discs do not have the latest drivers so you have to go to HP on line to download and install these. The hard drive comes with A Windows 7 setup partition so you can do an original install from there if you like.) David Long
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None. You have to buy the OS separately and install it. I installed Windows 8 via a USB CD-ROM drive. There is an option to install it via USB flash drive as well - bing it to get instructions.
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Yes you're gonna need to install win8 on the SSD, because the system came with windows installed already. Now the new thing with systems with win8 pre-installed is that the key isn't shown as in win7. So nope there isn't any product key attached. But another option would be to use an imaging software like "acronis" to image the win8 pre-installed. Once you're done with that, you can copy that image to the SSD. This process doesn't need a product key. Hope this helps.
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Yes. I was disappointed. I really did not see a speed increase. My friend bought the same one and said there was. However, he upgraded to Win 8 and did clean installs. That was probably why. If want SSD speed buy an SSD drive.
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Hi Kathryn, this one comes with Windows 7 Pro instead of 8.1 non pro version, a Samsung SSD instead of Kingston and a Western Digital Black HDD instead of the Blue version.
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I attempted to install it twice, once on the HDD, which didn't work no matter what I did, then I tried it again on the SSD, which houses windows 8, and it worked fine. For some reason it wouldn't give me the option to choose the operating system when I booted the computer, when Ubuntu was in the HDD.
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came with window 7 pro pre-installed, and with a windows 8 disk - I assume there's a downgrade license from window 8 to windows 7 - not sure otherwise
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Dear Lance, I found a small memory (Kingston) built directly into the motherboard (like a micro SSD). The computer has only one hard drive at 7200 rpm. The operating system (Windows 8) is installed on small memory (micro SSD) and the new software I install, they were on the hard drive. Alvaro Acevedo
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Mine came with windows 8 installed, however if you want another Operating system you may need to install it yourself.
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Its a mistake in the specs because technically this PC doesnt have a standard hard drive but SSD instead. SSD is much faster and takes the place of a hard drive. So it has a 128GB "Hard drive" made up of SSD.
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Does not come with installation disc (I don't think any do anymore). You can burn "recovery discs" and/or leave the recovery partition, usually "Drive D". you can then delete Windows 8 & install win7 from a separately purchased disc. This is more expensive (by the price of new win7 disc) than trying to find (if you can) a machine with similar specs w/ win7 pre-installed. ----OR--- Look into the new win 8.1 & Win 8.2. I don't know, but I heard they are much better than Win8. Good Luck!
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Mine came with Windows 7 professional installed and with recovery disks for Windows 8 should you want to upgrade.
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Mine came loaded with Windows 7, but it has an official Windows 8 sticker on the bottom. Win 8 may be included somehow, but I'm just not interested enough to find out where.
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This looks like a hybrid drive to me. The 8GB SSD drive is for files that are used frequently. It can provide a speed boost when accessing frequently used files/programs. You won't be able to directly access it.
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Windows 7 comes pre-installed and mine came with an upgrade disk for Windows 8, should I ever decide to upgrade.