When will MBP SSD prices come down?

[mrsir2009]

When will MBP SSD prices come down? And how much will they go down by? Does anyone have an idea?

 

[thegoldenmackid]

They will eventually come down, but I don't really see it happening in January, wait for the rest of the market to take a dive and the Apple will follow suit.

 

[harperjones99]

When will MBP SSD prices come down? And how much will they go down by? Does anyone have an idea?

I am honestly surprised they haven't yet. It feels like improvements in tech/prices are slowing down to me...but it may just be perception. I am not feeling Moore's Law is accurate in practice.

 

[Cliff3]

http://www.computerworld.com/s/arti...in_5_years?taxonomyName=Storage&taxonomyId=19

According to In-Stat, SSD prices have been dropping 60% year over year. Currently, the price of consumer-grade SSD costs from $2 to $3.45 per gigabyte, with hard drives going for about 38 cents per gigabyte, according to Gartner Inc. and iSuppli Corp.

"Two years ago, SSDs cost $17.50 per gigabyte, so it's obvious that consumer NAND flash memory will soon be a true contender to hard disk drives -- it's just not there yet," Gartner analyst Joseph Unsworth said. "I think you need to get to 128GB for around $200, and that's going to happen around 2010. Also, the industry needs to effectively communicate why consumers or enterprise users should pay more for less storage."

 

[CrackedButter]

Working on that assumption then, we should have 256GB SSD drives for $100 in 2011 and 512GB SSD's for $100 in 2012.

 

[tardman91]

Working on that assumption then, we should have 256GB SSD drives for $100 in 2011 and 512GB SSD's for $100 in 2012.

We can only hope. I'll hold out for 2012.