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Are Consumer Hard Drives Headed Into History?
Lucas123 writes "With NAND flash fabricators ramping up production, per GB prices of solid state drives are expected to drop by more than half by this time next year to about 50 cents. Even so, consumers still look at three things when purchasing a computer: CPU power, memory size, and drive capacity, giving spinning disk the edge. SSD manufacturers like Samsung and SanDisk have tried but failed to change consumer attitudes toward choosing SSDs for their performance, durability and lower power use. But, with the release of the new MacBook Air (sans hard disk drive), Steve Jobs has joined the marketing push and may have the clout to shift the market away from hard drives, even if they're still an order of magnitude cheaper."
hard to find a USB keyboard? Really?
Maybe because a lot of people like Chrome or Firefox more?
Posted from a Macbook using Chrome.
See my blog http://ilovecookes.blogspot.com/ for light hearted technical information.
Then how come Safari (the default browser on a Mac) only has 4-5% share according to web usage statistics? NPD is a reputable source, but I'd like to see the actual study myself, rather than hearsay.
Because unlike your average lazy Windows user who is still "running" IE and their 30-day anti-virus demo 2 years later, Mac users know how to break away from the factory default and load their browser of choice.