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HP opts for hard drive over SSD in Split X2 budget tablet |
June 01, 2014
Tablets are mostly packed with flash storage, but Hewlett-Packard has made an exception and plugged a high-capacity hard drive into its latest Split X2 budget tablet.The 13.3-inch Split X2 tablet has a 500GB hard drive, and will be sold with a keyboard dock for laptop functionality. The reason for using a hard drive is to give budget tablet users more storage capacity, said Mike Nash, vice president of product management at HP.The Split X2 starts at US$599, and will be available in the U.S. starting in July. It uses Intel chips.Hard drives are cheaper than SSDs, which are available in capacities up to 512GB for tablets. Microsoft’s Surface Pro 3 tablet, for example, starts at $799 with a Core i3 chip and a 128GB SSD, and a $1,949 model has Core i7 model and a 512GB SSD.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2357500/hp-opts-for-hard-drive-over-ssd-in-split-x2-budget-tablet.html#tk.rss_all
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