Comments on: Is Apple Planning a Solid State Drive Option in All Upcoming Notebooks? http://www.macblogz.com/2008/07/29/how-about-a-solid-state-drive-option-in-all-upcoming-notebooks/ Bridging the Apple Community and Keeping Tabs on the Rumor Mill. Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:04:36 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Mac SSD Guy http://www.macblogz.com/2008/07/29/how-about-a-solid-state-drive-option-in-all-upcoming-notebooks/comment-page-1/#comment-3304 Mac SSD Guy Fri, 24 Apr 2009 20:26:26 +0000 http://www.macblogz.com/?p=434#comment-3304 It's amazing just how fast SSD's are evolving. There's just non-stop announcements and new shipping products with speed and capacity increases left and right. The Apple Store's build-to-order pricing on laptop SSD's is really inconsistent: the more the laptop costs, the cheaper per GB the 128 or 256GB SSD option is. Apple's pulling a pretty good squeeze-play: The SSD's are (of course) way overpriced. But it'd cost $100-200 above and beyond the cost of a retail SSD to have a competent tech install an SSD and clone your files on it - so it's kind of a wash. I see SSD's aren't listed as a BTO option for the Mini, nor any 3.5" drive form-factor model like iMac or Pro tower. It’s amazing just how fast SSD’s are evolving. There’s just non-stop announcements and new shipping products with speed and capacity increases left and right. The Apple Store’s build-to-order pricing on laptop SSD’s is really inconsistent: the more the laptop costs, the cheaper per GB the 128 or 256GB SSD option is.

Apple’s pulling a pretty good squeeze-play: The SSD’s are (of course) way overpriced. But it’d cost $100-200 above and beyond the cost of a retail SSD to have a competent tech install an SSD and clone your files on it – so it’s kind of a wash.

I see SSD’s aren’t listed as a BTO option for the Mini, nor any 3.5″ drive form-factor model like iMac or Pro tower.

]]> By: james braselton http://www.macblogz.com/2008/07/29/how-about-a-solid-state-drive-option-in-all-upcoming-notebooks/comment-page-1/#comment-2901 james braselton Thu, 22 Jan 2009 04:24:29 +0000 http://www.macblogz.com/?p=434#comment-2901 HI THERE WOW HOW COME APPLE IS OFEERING A 256 GB SSD FOR $900 ON THE 17 INCH MACBOOK PRO WITH THE 2.93 GHZ AND 4 GB OF RAM THATS GOING TOO COST $3,900 AND WITH THE 8 GB OF RAM WILL TOTAL $5,200 HI THERE WOW HOW COME APPLE IS OFEERING A 256 GB SSD FOR $900 ON THE 17 INCH MACBOOK PRO WITH THE 2.93 GHZ AND 4 GB OF RAM THATS GOING TOO COST $3,900 AND WITH THE 8 GB OF RAM WILL TOTAL $5,200

]]> By: james braselton http://www.macblogz.com/2008/07/29/how-about-a-solid-state-drive-option-in-all-upcoming-notebooks/comment-page-1/#comment-2421 james braselton Mon, 22 Dec 2008 22:02:02 +0000 http://www.macblogz.com/?p=434#comment-2421 HI THERE APPLE NOW HAS A 128 GB SOLID STATE DRIVE FOR ALL LAPTOP MODELS MACBOOK AND MACBOOK PRO AS WELL MACBBOK AIR APPLES 128 GB SSD DRIVE IS STILL $500 FOR DOUBLE CAPACITY SOO ITS A GOOD TIME TOO JUMP ON THE SOLID STATE DRIVES HI THERE APPLE NOW HAS A 128 GB SOLID STATE DRIVE FOR ALL LAPTOP MODELS MACBOOK AND MACBOOK PRO AS WELL MACBBOK AIR APPLES 128 GB SSD DRIVE IS STILL $500 FOR DOUBLE CAPACITY SOO ITS A GOOD TIME TOO JUMP ON THE SOLID STATE DRIVES

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