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Apple to Benefit Further from Dropping Flash Memory Pricing

Cole Slaw said:
That's good news.
Apple will pass the savings on to the consumers in a year or two, I'd say.
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Which Apple are you talking about? :p

tnisatard said:
are there any chances they decrease the iphone prices soon?

such as eliminate the 8gb and drop th 16gb to 200 and add on a 32gb?

my plan ends on decemeber 7, probably wont happen then, but i wont feel good about it if they update it during the mac event thing in jan.
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Why would you feel bad about it. Just continue your current plan (out of contract) until the new cone gets released. It's not like they cut off your service or automatically renew you for two more contract years when the contract ends.
 
Doctor Q said:
Given the tradeoffs between SSD and conventional hard drives, would there be reason for Apple to use both flash drives and hard drives in a single computer, with the flash memory used as an extra level in the storage hierarchy or as a RAID-type mirror device? I'm talking about the possibility that suitable hardware and software could produce improved performance, for an additional expense, by relying on the advantages of both types of storage while letting each compensate for the disadvantages of the other.
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mirror - no, you really never want to mix drive types.
What I see.. one for the OS, one for data. You want your OS to be as quick as possible, but data is always going to take up room. I would nto be surprised if Apple started shipping laptops with a non-removable flash for the OS and a customizable mechanical for your data.
 
Doctor Q said:
Given the tradeoffs between SSD and conventional hard drives, would there be reason for Apple to use both flash drives and hard drives in a single computer, with the flash memory used as an extra level in the storage hierarchy or as a RAID-type mirror device? I'm talking about the possibility that suitable hardware and software could produce improved performance, for an additional expense, by relying on the advantages of both types of storage while letting each compensate for the disadvantages of the other.
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If you have a macbook pro, you can get a lexar expresscard flash and then research the keyword "ReadyBoost" though it won't be much help for osx :p but it does take the benefits of both type of drives to improve the "os"! usb drives will do but I said expresscard is because you can stick it in and forget about it.
 
Is there any evidence to support the claim that Apple are benefiting significantly by the flash memory price drops?

I find it very hard to believe that Apple place an order every few weeks and can take advantage of price drops quickly. More likely is that they place orders a long time in advance at fixed prices, which they base their product prices on.

Buying short term supplies is great when availability is high and prices are falling, but what if the opposite happened? Apple would be in big trouble and I'd be surprised if they'd take the risk - its not worth it.

Besides, as others have pointed out - falling flash memory prices (or any computer component) is hardly news, even if some analyst is going on about it.
 
I was looking at the SSD Air Book in an Apple store a few weeks ago. It's darn impressive. I would LOVE to own that, but at $2000+ for a small SSD... not likely.

SactoGuy18 said:
Maybe with falling flash memory prices maybe Apple will finally see it fit to produce a 32 GB 4G iPod nano? I'd buy one in no time flat! :D
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I found the 4G Nano just on the edge of uncontrollably huge, in terms of music. For video I suppose 32GB isn't much, but would video on a nano be worth it? The screen is miniscule.
 
I think that with computers and flash memory size matters we want bigger and better all the time
 
So all this proves is that Apple is taking advantage of its consumers when it comes to its flash based products. Why am I not surprised, they do this with falling previous generation processors, graphic cards and hdd's. :rolleyes:

I was looking at possibly purchasing in a 32GB iPod Touch, however I realized that the MBA has a 128GB flash drive in it, so it quite possible that the top end Touch will have a 64GB capacity while the 8GB being discontinued. Better yet they can recycle those 8GB flash chips to contain Snow Leopard sine it will be trimmed off all the PPC fat, it should fit in 8GB or less. Basically they are incorporating the iPhone OS technology running on flash memory into the notebook line as the notebooks have already acquired Multi-Touch Track Pad's.
 
Lesser Evets said:
I was looking at the SSD Air Book in an Apple store a few weeks ago. It's darn impressive. I would LOVE to own that, but at $2000+ for a small SSD... not likely.
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If you believe Flash technology is impressive, you have seen nothing yet. If Holographic Data Storage makes it to market. ;)
 
Mr Maui said:
Which Apple are you talking about? :p



Why would you feel bad about it. Just continue your current plan (out of contract) until the new cone gets released. It's not like they cut off your service or automatically renew you for two more contract years when the contract ends.
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im under my uncles plan, and my parents want to open their own plan right when it ends, which is december 7, so no matter what we are going to open a new contract that day

so i dont wanna pay 200 for an 8gb iphone, then a month later apple drops the pricing
 
How would it work with video files?
i.e. typically you would go for the 7k spinning harddrive over the 5k.

Is it slower than the 5kRPM harddrives?

Peace

dAlen
arn said:
In general, SSD's differences are said to be:

- Faster random reads (since it doesn't have to move a physical drive head around)
- Slightly slower sequential reads
- Slower writes
- Lower power draw
- Less likely to "crash"

In practice, the advantages don't seem to be dramatic at this time, though I think the most recent SSD benchs have been better.

arn
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It's nice to see Apple adopting SSD drives but many customers are in the creative field and stupid Adobe doesn't allow them to run their programs on SSD drives.

I just hope that one day some competition will take over Adobe's main market. Adobe is a bad company.
 
princigalli said:
It's nice to see Apple adopting SSD drives but many customers are in the creative field and stupid Adobe doesn't allow them to run their programs on SSD drives.

I just hope that one day some competition will take over Adobe's main market. Adobe is a bad company.
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you are confusing SSD flash drives with SSD hard drives.
 
Weight

People, as evident by the MBA, weight is just as important as performance... Why is no one focused on weight? is there a real difference in weight one way or the other?
 
Mac4Obama said:
People, as evident by the MBA, weight is just as important as performance... Why is no one focused on weight? is there a real difference in weight one way or the other?
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probably because it is a desktop...unless that was meant to be sarcastic, in which case i feel stupid :D (i'm used to it by now though)
 
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