85 Percent of Ultrabooks Integrate SSDs by End of 2012

[Guest]

Ultrabooks are clearly shaping up as the PC form factor SSD makers have been waiting for.

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[master_chen]

Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet!

 

[spentshells]

for the price of them they should all have large ssd

 

[guess who]

I thought the Ultrabook label REQUIRED a SSD

 

[reprotected]

"LOL SCREW MACBOOK AIR, ULTRABOOK AND OBJECTDOCK FTW."

 

[Guest]

Yes, Now OEMs! Build an ultrabook/etherbook (chipzilla TB->$$$$) with a 10 Gigabit ethernet port! Does anyone have any statistics on thunderbolt adoption?

 

[A Bad Day]

Any news on the Ultrathins?

 

[SteelCity1981]

it's only a matter of time when we see SSD's become the boot and main storage in utlra books. 240gb SSD's are already dipping below 200 dollars now which a size that large is adequate enough for most common users.

 

[eternalkp]

i'm surprised apple is not suing these company for making a slick looking laptop

 

[ipwn3r456]

"$4.40 for a 64 Gb chip"... How come we are still seeing $60 for a 64 GB SSD?

 

[4trees]

ME (talking to an empty chair): So, possibly it may be time for another HDD to come along and solve the problem of power usage in our ultra books.
IMAGINARY CLINT: .....
ME: So how do you plan on handling the problem of 2 hour battery life?
IMAGINARY CLINT:...
ME: Oh, so you dont plan on handling the problem? Well.... What do you mean shut up? I thought it was just because somebody had the stupid idea of running disk drives in every Ultra book for the next 10 years.
.....

 

[agnickolov]

[citation][nom]ipwn3r456[/nom]"$4.40 for a 64 Gb chip"... How come we are still seeing $60 for a 64 GB SSD?[/citation]
You can do the math yourself: 8 x $4.40 = $35.20 just for the flash in your 64GB SSD. Then you add the board, controller, SATA port, casing etc. plus labor costs, marketing costs, transportation costs...

 

[DirectXtreme]

[citation][nom]ipwn3r456[/nom]"$4.40 for a 64 Gb chip"... How come we are still seeing $60 for a 64 GB SSD?[/citation]
64 Gb = 8 GB (8 bits = 1 Byte). So the NAND flash for your SSD actually costs $35.20 like the other guy said.

 

[Guest]

Well goodness I hope they come with SSDs. They are ultra-books after all. One doesn't pay the high price for noth'in.