Intel Entering Solid State Drive Market
"When Intel launches its...products, you'll see that not all SSDs are created equal," Winslow said. "The way the SSDs are architected, the way the controller and firmware operates makes a huge difference"
The drives are expected to come with an SATA interface, making them not directly compatible with the MacBook Air -- the only Apple laptop that offers an SSD option. As SSD drives drop in price, however, we can expect them to be offered with other Apple laptops. Intel believes prices will drop 40-50% per year.Solid State Drives offer advantages of faster performance, lower power requirements and durability over traditional hard drives.
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(View all)Just change the X to whatever you are pushing:
"Intel also promises significant performance gains over existing X products..."
Rinse and repeat.
I also know that they draw less power, perhaps the newer laptops can be put in a "low power mode" and would be able to possibly play a Blu-ray disk in its entirety?
Either way, I think I'd LOVE to see this in an option for MBP's, maybe Q3-Q4? :)
With Intel in the game now, I think we'll see a lot of improvements. I think they have a lot to offer to the architecture of the whole SSD. Maybe they can get some bonuses in there too since it would most likely be used with Intel chipsets and processors.
SSD 2008: $1000
SSD 2009: $500
SSD 2010: $250
** and in 2010 you will have a much larger capacity SSD
Thats why I just bought the new MBP recently. The next meaningful upgrade option (to me) is the SSD. All the different chips and platforms between now and 2010 (when a SSD will be affordable to me personally) is unimportant to me.
People asked me if I would wait for Montevina or Nehalem, Wimax etc, I told them no because I feel the SSD is the premium upgrade to wait for, not the Chipset or Platform. So since I'm not willing to wait till 2010, I bought now.
Just incase anyone else was thinking of waiting, this was my reasoning.
Either way, I think I'd LOVE to see this in an option for MBP's, maybe Q3-Q4? :)
Doubt it. We might (MIGHT!) see these in non-Air Macs in 2009 as an option (user must pick, not standard on any models) but event that might be pushing it.
I'd say 2010 or maybe even 2011 is more likely. The fact is, at the moment these things offer less storage space for far more money. That's worth it for Air users...they need a small computer with long battery life and are willing to pay a lot more for that.
But they'll have to drop in price a bunch to be attractive to the other laptop users. It will happen eventually, but not this year.
http://blogs.computerworld.com/ssd_powered_macbook_pro_wait_is_over
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