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MacBook Air SSD prices drop

by Mat Lu Jul 3rd 2008 at 7:00PM

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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Clifford

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.

July 04 2008 at 10:42 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Justin

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.

July 04 2008 at 3:35 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Come on

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.


July 04 2008 at 12:42 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Bob S.

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."

July 04 2008 at 4:02 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
metroid87706

That awesome. Still won't get an Air though. MB is way better for the price. Then again, I don't travel. >.

July 03 2008 at 10:59 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jake J.

Dudes - check out this post on my blog. I nearly got scammed into buying a cheap used MacBook!

http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/palmzealot/556207/

July 03 2008 at 9:43 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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ducttape38

Yes, you are an idiot.

July 03 2008 at 10:39 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Lars

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.

July 04 2008 at 7:09 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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