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MacBook Air SSD prices drop
It looks like Apple has a nice little surprise for anybody in the market for the SSD equipped MacBook Air. The price on the Apple Store for the 64GB SSD upgrade on the 1.6GHz Air has dropped to $599 from $999. Similarly the price of the 1.8GHz Air (equipped with the SSD standard) has dropped to $2598 from $3098.Needless to say, the SSD is still a pretty penny and there's some controversy about how much it helps battery life. But if you've been waiting for one it looks like this is your lucky day.
Thanks, Keisha!
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Jake J. said 9:44PM on 7-03-2008
Dudes - check out this post on my blog. I nearly got scammed into buying a cheap used MacBook!
http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/palmzealot/556207/
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ducttape38 said 10:41PM on 7-03-2008
Yes, you are an idiot.
Lars said 7:37AM on 7-04-2008
When the price of something online is "way too low to resist" it should put the red flag up.
On an unrelated matter: I've been staring at that guy-in-rowing-boat header on your page. It is physically impossible for the rope to be to be under strain, the way that the rower is sitting.
If anything, rowing like that should push him *towards* the jetty.
Devin P. said 10:59PM on 7-03-2008
That awesome. Still won't get an Air though. MB is way better for the price. Then again, I don't travel. >.
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nzm said 12:42AM on 7-04-2008
SSD is not about battery life or speed. Its about stability. Hard Drives suck and fail all the time, so if you care about your data enough to pay $599 more, then its well worth it.
For everyone else just spend $300 on nice time capsule.
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Bob S. said 4:02AM on 7-04-2008
I've used Mac hard drives since the original 10 meg model for the Mac Plus; I have seven running now between my desktop and laptop, and none has ever failed. Maybe you mean "Mistreated hard drives can fail at any time."
Justin said 3:35AM on 7-04-2008
Controversy? That article was debunked on many levels.
SSD is not just about stability (in some cases they are less reliable than a HDD). What they offer is a fast response when you wake your laptop up out of sleep. The less lag there is waking up a laptop, the more likely it is going to be put to sleep, and therefore save battery power.
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Clifford said 11:21PM on 7-04-2008
I was talking to a guy the other day who was getting an error on his MacBook Air when he tried to import songs into iTunes, that his disk was full. We opened a Finder window and I had a quick look at the bottom of it, saw the number 10 and thought that something else must be wrong if he had 10 gigs of space left.
He had 10 megs of space left. 10 MEGS. And the MacBook Air was behaving as if nothing was wrong, aside from the fact that it couldn't save files.
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