gizmodo.com— I hope you didn't have your heart set on that sexy 64GB SSD that Steve teased as an "option" during his keynote: the 1.8Ghz version with the SSD drive standard costs a whopping $3,100.
Jan 15, 2008View in Crawl 4
I just pre-ordered mine with the SSD 64GB with the 1.8 Ghz C2D. I don't see why people are complaining about the price, if you don't wish to purchase this computer, go out and buy an Asus EePc. I'm not trying to sound smug here, but if price is a factor and you wish to purchase an Apple, a MacBook is around one thousand. Lets take a look at the iPhone, people complained it was too expensive, but Apple managed to sell 4 million and now the second biggest manufacturer of mobile phone behind RIMM in North America. People see something of quality, they will pay to own that product. As with phones, computers generally does the same thing, it all matters in speed, capacity, industrial design, OS, value. Factor those to your own priority and then evaluate which computer suites you the best. If you don't like the MBA, nobody is twisting your arm backwards to buy it, there are plenty of other choices out there.
Aah, but its only a 32 gb. Double that, and it costs 800, but as I said in an earlier comment, SSD prices are not linear. To go from a 32 to a 64 gb drive is not a 2x increase in price, more like 2.5x, because the chips have to be more dense to pack twice the data in to the same amount of space.
Considering the first laptops I ever had to support were Toshiba 386's (w/probably a few megs of RAM and maybe 30MB hard drives) at over $10k a piece, this is quite a bargain.
I agree to that. I was just venting out the frustration on the same point.... in my case, it was the same iPhone, with a very meager firmware update, then also its price dropped by $200.
jimswarthowJan 15, 2008
$1300?? good grief.. what's next, a $500 cell-phone??
alphapsi12Jan 15, 2008
I just pre-ordered mine with the SSD 64GB with the 1.8 Ghz C2D. I don't see why people are complaining about the price, if you don't wish to purchase this computer, go out and buy an Asus EePc. I'm not trying to sound smug here, but if price is a factor and you wish to purchase an Apple, a MacBook is around one thousand. Lets take a look at the iPhone, people complained it was too expensive, but Apple managed to sell 4 million and now the second biggest manufacturer of mobile phone behind RIMM in North America. People see something of quality, they will pay to own that product. As with phones, computers generally does the same thing, it all matters in speed, capacity, industrial design, OS, value. Factor those to your own priority and then evaluate which computer suites you the best. If you don't like the MBA, nobody is twisting your arm backwards to buy it, there are plenty of other choices out there.
elbobJan 15, 2008
Aah, but its only a 32 gb. Double that, and it costs 800, but as I said in an earlier comment, SSD prices are not linear. To go from a 32 to a 64 gb drive is not a 2x increase in price, more like 2.5x, because the chips have to be more dense to pack twice the data in to the same amount of space.
zizzybaloobahJan 15, 2008
Considering the first laptops I ever had to support were Toshiba 386's (w/probably a few megs of RAM and maybe 30MB hard drives) at over $10k a piece, this is quite a bargain.
winmywiiJan 15, 2008
a 32gb on newegg is around $700. They also have a 128 for $3000+. No 64gb for sale, but I would say that your guess is close.
jesperhhJan 15, 2008
Well the macbook air isn't exactly the only laptop with SSD..
jazzboyrulesJan 15, 2008
I agree to that. I was just venting out the frustration on the same point.... in my case, it was the same iPhone, with a very meager firmware update, then also its price dropped by $200.
megagramJan 16, 2008
And you, sir, obviously do not get it.
j4200Jan 16, 2008
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