One of those things is how quickly the operating system loads from a cold boot.
Windows 8 and the solid state drive can share the credit for this feat.
Given this new platform, we were forced to modify our benchmarking procedures slightly.

PCMark Vantage refused to give an overall score now matter how hard I tried.
All of our other testing procedures have been carried over from Windows 7.
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.