A very important part of overall system responsiveness is down to hard drive performance. We use one of our favourite benchmark utilities – CrystalDiskMark X64 Edition – to rate performance from the on-board SATA controller.
Here we see fairly poor performance from the included SSD as it's only a SATA-300 model. It does, however, boast 128 GB of capacity (although this is reduced significantly with Windows 8 installed).