The "netbook" market is quickly being saturated and their small size means that regular hard drives are out of the picture. Now the SSD market is quickly being saturated to meet the demand of the netbooks - which allows for more R&D on SSD drives.
More competition will lead to lower prices and better/more reliable technology.
I forsee a 100 GB SSD around $99.99 within a year.
Yeah, seeing that traditional 2.5" 7200 rpm 100 GB drives can still run above the $100 price point, good luck on seeing an SSD get cheaper than that in the next year, Mr. Prophet.
Even at $2-3/GB, SSDs would be great! Once you can get a fast SATA II 256GB SSD for $600-800, They will fly off the shelves in premium notebooks like Apple's Macbook Pro, Dell's XPS and Precision, etc
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This is perfect.
The "netbook" market is quickly being saturated and their small size means that regular hard drives are out of the picture. Now the SSD market is quickly being saturated to meet the demand of the netbooks - which allows for more R&D on SSD drives.
More competition will lead to lower prices and better/more reliable technology.
I forsee a 100 GB SSD around $99.99 within a year.
I don't forsee that for a couple years at least.
Yeah, seeing that traditional 2.5" 7200 rpm 100 GB drives can still run above the $100 price point, good luck on seeing an SSD get cheaper than that in the next year, Mr. Prophet.
Even at $2-3/GB, SSDs would be great! Once you can get a fast SATA II 256GB SSD for $600-800, They will fly off the shelves in premium notebooks like Apple's Macbook Pro, Dell's XPS and Precision, etc