Apple Lowers Price On MacBook Air Flash Drives
Apple has done the world a solid (warning: pun incoming) and lowered the price of its flash-memory-based MacBook Air by a cool $500, reducing the $999 premium on its solid-state-drive micronotebook to $599. Apple has also reduced pricing on the 1.8GHz processor option across all MacBook Air configurations.
That's neat.
During the course of sussing out this newsbite I came upon some information that might not be new to everyone, but was relatively new to me, and that should be taken into consideration when thinking about buying a computer that uses flash drives as primary drives: SSDs are not the power solution we've been told they are, because while conventional drives use little power during downtime, flash-based drives draw maximum power at all times.
And while SSDs vary in efficacy from manufacturer to manufacturer, SSDs designed with architecture that lowers power consumption have hardly saturated the market yet - look for Intel's new line of 80GB and 160GB SSDs this year, which improve upon power consumption by a factor of ten.
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Posted to Hot Stuff, In the News on 7 July 2008
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