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Resolved Crucial M4 256 GB, $179.99
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Wow, these are flying off the shelves. My local MemoryExpress outlets had over 15 of these drives come in, and are all gone now. Guess that killed my urge once and for all and saved me some money today. 
The more people buy it, the cheaper they will become. Basics of economics.
Now the 512GB are kind of stuck at their current price. The 256GB is a hot seller.
Also Samsung prices don't seem to budge...probably because it costs more to manufacture them as they are the top 2 tier (Intel & Samsung).
Now the 512GB are kind of stuck at their current price. The 256GB is a hot seller.
Also Samsung prices don't seem to budge...probably because it costs more to manufacture them as they are the top 2 tier (Intel & Samsung).
Well, there you go then. Glad for you.
I don't look back at the $700 I paid for mine because to me it was a bargain. The extra $120 I paid for the last 10 months was worth it. I couldn't survive on 256gb and the 512 has been perfect since day 1.
I think I paid around $180 each for two 120GB patriot pyro SE drives in december. Felt like a real bargain back then and I still don't regret it. Just wish now I had the balls to spend the money on a RAID controller so I can put 4 drives in raid 0 rather than just these 2 on the motherboard controller.
edit: FWIW, I'd be all over this deal if I were looking for drives... heck, I probably would have cracked weeks ago when other drives were going for about $1/gb
edit: FWIW, I'd be all over this deal if I were looking for drives... heck, I probably would have cracked weeks ago when other drives were going for about $1/gb
I wanted to hold out until the 512gb was less than $300 but that is probably a ways out and looking at my drive now I see that even with over 50gb of needless movie files I am using 180gb total. If I fill it up I'll just pay for more Google Drive space or something.
Between dropping ssd and ram prices, I'm thrilled that I'll have some economical upgrades available to boost my machines performance over the coming year!
If that whole external gfx card over thunderbolt ever comes to fruition ill be over the moon! (I do 3d work and would kill for a cuda enabled card for some sweet gpu rendering!)
If that whole external gfx card over thunderbolt ever comes to fruition ill be over the moon! (I do 3d work and would kill for a cuda enabled card for some sweet gpu rendering!)
...which is one of my main arguments against this supposed redesign.
Although this is a great deal, I need the 512GB drive so until the $1/GB barrier has been reached at such high capacities, no SSD for me.
Sold out on both links now. Just snagged up the last one on Amazon for the 240$ price. Now time to get the data doubler for my 1tb
I thought it is still available at Circuit City for 200.
Anyway...I will wait for a little more...
Anyway...I will wait for a little more...
New day, new sale. Now you can get it for $190 shipped.
http://slickdeals.net/f/4343646-Cru...90-for-new-customers?token=AAEBBQAAAAAEPEJHXg
http://slickdeals.net/f/4343646-Cru...90-for-new-customers?token=AAEBBQAAAAAEPEJHXg
If you're talking about MBP's getting the "blade" type memory, I really doubt Apple will go that way in these units. SSD technology is just too prolific.
Is $1.13 really that far off? ($580). You could be reaping the benefits of what you want right now for that extra 13 cents rather than waiting maybe 6-9 months.Although this is a great deal, I need the 512GB drive so until the $1/GB barrier has been reached at such high capacities, no SSD for me.
Like you I couldn't settle for anything less than 512gb and broke down and bought when they were $700. Never looked back. The math works out to just a few bucks each month.
The more people who buy a product doesn't influence the price directly. The higher the aggregate demand of a good, the more influence they have on making the sellers provide that good at a lower aggregate supply. (i.e. more products at each price level, this in turn lowers the equilibrium price of the good. Therefore causing the price to "become cheaper" which allows more people to buy it.
Sometimes this is at no cost to the supplier because the demand curve is more elastic then the price of the inputs, which means they can sell more at a lower price and still make more revenue. Sometimes the supplier needs another incentive to make this a positive experience for themselves, whether through a technological innovation, or government subsidy, or lowering of the quality of the good.
In this case, because more people want the good, and because the demand curve is more elastic then the price of the inputs of the good, all Crucial has to do is ramp up production by adding more workers/ more factories, and because quantity sold increases faster then the price decrease, their total revenue is larger.
Yes: This is off topic slightly...
I was fine with the price and in a few months someone will quote me with a $4XX price lol. When I started looking at SSD's a little while back the 512's were in the grand range. I'm amazed at this thing. Very fast in this older Mac.
No, that if the MBP slims down and loses the ODD, then we won't be able to replace anything ourselves. What we see is what we get. No upgrades.
This proposed redesign would be very detrimental to the MacBook Pro line.
Don't do this, windows 7 needs to be freshly installed on a SSD. If the installer detects a ssd on installation, it does multiple ssd friendly settings if you do like disabling defragmentation and trim support. A cloned previously installed HD copy won't do this.
Will wait for the 512Gb drives to become more affordable, it's finally getting somewhere it seems.