01-15-2008, 08:40 PM
The solid state disk will appeal to the "top-of-the-line" purchasers who want the best laptop that money can buy. For them the extra $1000 price is perfectly fine since they can brag about the new feature to their peers.
The real benefit is durability. Metaphorically speaking, it comes down to choosing an iPod Nano or iPod Classic. The Classic is a better value for having high storage but it is more subject to shock damage.
If a person is very hard on their current laptop and is worried that a hard drive failure at the wrong time would be more costly than $1000 up front, this may be the computer for them.
The lack of a user-replaceable battery (or any other user-replaceable component from I can see) would likely be a non-issue since these consumers will only have this laptop for a year and will purchase the next great thing next year.
To address limited battery life for extended stays away from AC power, third parties will step in with solutions in the same way they did for the iPods with supplementary battery that connects to the power connector.
The real benefit is durability. Metaphorically speaking, it comes down to choosing an iPod Nano or iPod Classic. The Classic is a better value for having high storage but it is more subject to shock damage.
If a person is very hard on their current laptop and is worried that a hard drive failure at the wrong time would be more costly than $1000 up front, this may be the computer for them.
The lack of a user-replaceable battery (or any other user-replaceable component from I can see) would likely be a non-issue since these consumers will only have this laptop for a year and will purchase the next great thing next year.
To address limited battery life for extended stays away from AC power, third parties will step in with solutions in the same way they did for the iPods with supplementary battery that connects to the power connector.