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It's worse than having a laptop with a 1 TB SSD and 256 SSD. On the other hand it keeps the cost down. SSDs are a lot cheaper than they used to be, but it's still about $100 cheaper for a 1 TB HDD than a 1 TB SSD. That's fairly substantial when you're looking at a $600-700 laptop. They're easily replaced. You can get a 1 TB SSD for $150. Depends what you're using it for and what your budget is if that's worth it. For most people it will work just fine.
Price those drives individually, by themselves and you'll understand how much more it would cost to have a 1 TB SSD than to have those 2 drives. This is actually a good compromise to keeo the high price of larger SSDs from pricing consumers out of a new computer. In practice, you would run your OS and applications on the SSD and keep your files on the HD.
I find it odd you prefer glossy over anti glare. I hate glossy.
I've been using glossy my entire life. I did a side by side comparison with HP Pavilion that has a higher resolution than mine. I was automatically able to tell the difference. I felt like I bought garbage. Anti-glare I will never buy again.
I find it odd you prefer glossy over anti glare. I hate glossy.
As long as you can control the lightning, I prefer glossy. But that's seldom the case with a laptop. Sufficiently bright, e.g. Apple, mitigates that to some a large extent. They're still lousy in direct sunlight but as long as the but then really I've never had a laptop that isn't. If sufficiently bright though they're not too bad for your normal coffee shop with a lot of windows or regular office florescent lighting. They do need to be up around 500 nits though whereas the normal laptop is more around 250 and just abysmal without a lot of anti-glare coating in those conditions.
I've been very happy with this laptop. Replacement of the SSD was a breeze. One screw to remove the back cover.
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