Apple MacBook Air with SSD now cheaper
Apple has lowered the price of their MacBook Air notebook model if it is ordered with a solid state drive.
Customers were earlier required to pay a $999 premium for the SSD Drive. This price is now down to $599.
Apple has also reduced the price of another upgrade… The processor [...]
SanDisk to target flash memory at low cost computers for growth
SanDisk has said that they are planning to target the market for low cost computers to boost the demand for their solid-state drives.
Solid-state drives are increasingly being seen as potential replacements for traditional hard disks.
However, they are smaller in capacities and higher capacity drives are [...]
Samsung launches a 256 GB solid state drive
South Korean tech giant Samsung has launched their new solid state drive. This new drive has a storage capacity of 256 GB.
The company claims that this new drive is 2.4 times faster than traditional hard drives.
Samsung is now planning to begin mass production of this drive later this [...]
Super Talent set to launch 256GB solid state drives
San Jose-based Super Talent has claimed that they would start offering 256GB storage capable solid state drives from next month.
The company said that this new drive would have the same size as a 12.5-millimeter-thick 2.5-inch laptop drive.
The drive would feature the SATA-I interface which would make it [...]
Toshiba all set to introduce its 128 GB solid-state drive
Japanese tech giant Toshiba has said that they are planning to launch a 128 GB solid-state drive by next month.
The company is also going to offer this drive through their notebook products in the coming months.
Toshiba said that their new solution strikes the right balance between [...]
Dell denies reports that SSD based laptops are disappointing customers
US based personal computer maker Dell has denied that customers are returning notebooks which are fitted with solid state drives.
Avian Securities analyst Avi Cohen had claimed in a research paper that Dell is seeing high return rates (20 – 30%) due to performance issues and failures [...]
