The second point is more general... 4 years ago I was pretty convinced we would all be using SSDs in our computers by now, you will probably find me saying something like that on this very forum if you search my past posts... But as of today all my laptops have WeaternDigital 500GB to 750GB hard drives in them!?!? What gives? One word, Apple... Since they pay upfront for entire production runs of Flash chips, the rest of the world has to wait. So SSDs of any decent size are both rare and expensive, which means less people buy them which means less are made which means they stay rare and expensive... I'm not happy about that.
That my be true but it's only half of it. I think i read a couple of years ago an argument about using SSDs instead of conventional HDs. The cons are faster load times of big apps like the os itself. But they also said SSDs would be unreliable in the long run as they wear out quicker than a normal hd. My windows 7 loads up after about 45-60 seconds and i think it would be way cool to see it load faster.
Maybe fantasizing too much but as i write this i see my 4gb memory stick in my laptop. Why would it be so hard to put one of these preinstalled in new pcs and use it as a kind of SSD and maybe using a conventional hd alongside it for bigger stuff? I don't get how SSDs cost hundreds of dollars when i can buy a generic usb stick for $5.
