you guys are too impatient... the guy writing about LCDs was right. I remember paying $500 for my 15" Samsung LCDs (Samsung being the only manufacturer worth buying from back them because they had far fewer dead pixels and much better quality screens than the others)... and $1000 for my Samsung 191T 19" LCD.... well worth the money back then since I work on my computer and was far better than CRTs. Point is, this was only back in 2001 or 2002... a few years back only.
With OCZ Vertex and similar SSDs, SSDs have already achieved desirable speeds at affordable prices. Sure you need to have a job to afford them, but they are not astronomically priced anymore for decent enough (120GB storage).
Just imagine what the landscape will be like in another year or 2... 2009 should be a great year for this business, 2010 even better.
Luckily for the people that "will never buy this SSD at these prices", I don't think OCZ is trying to sell them to you. And you already have respectable enough affordable choices... namely 72000 RPM notebook drives. But if you really want an SSD, have a little patience, wait a year or 2 or 3 until SSDs come to your price range.
I just hope none of the guys complaining about the high price of these (now affordable) SSDs, are the same rich kids who spend a couple thousand dollars on their gaming rigs...
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you guys are too impatient... the guy writing about LCDs was right. I remember paying $500 for my 15" Samsung LCDs (Samsung being the only manufacturer worth buying from back them because they had far fewer dead pixels and much better quality screens than the others)... and $1000 for my Samsung 191T 19" LCD.... well worth the money back then since I work on my computer and was far better than CRTs. Point is, this was only back in 2001 or 2002... a few years back only.
With OCZ Vertex and similar SSDs, SSDs have already achieved desirable speeds at affordable prices. Sure you need to have a job to afford them, but they are not astronomically priced anymore for decent enough (120GB storage).
Just imagine what the landscape will be like in another year or 2... 2009 should be a great year for this business, 2010 even better.
Luckily for the people that "will never buy this SSD at these prices", I don't think OCZ is trying to sell them to you. And you already have respectable enough affordable choices... namely 72000 RPM notebook drives. But if you really want an SSD, have a little patience, wait a year or 2 or 3 until SSDs come to your price range.
I just hope none of the guys complaining about the high price of these (now affordable) SSDs, are the same rich kids who spend a couple thousand dollars on their gaming rigs...