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Sumsung 256GB SSD to debut this year

Monday, May 26th, 2008

Electronista passes along a press release this morning from Sansung that a 256GB SSD is on the way this year. Of course, there’s no mention of price and most guesses are that it’s initially going to cost a pretty penny. Prices will hopefully drop fast after that.

This older chart from Engadget shows how in terms of cost per gigabyte, we probably won’t see prices near HDD costs until 2010. At the time of this blog post Samsung was estimating “at least a 3.x gap: $1.9/GB for SSDs vs $0.9/GB for HDDs.” Hmmm. At $1.9/GB for a 256GB drive, that would be $486.40. Not bad. Of course, this is unlikely–at least at first.

Gottabemobile also has the news.

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Samsung to ditch UMPCs?

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

CNet is reporting that a Samsung senior manager has warned that Samsung will leave the laptop market–including UMPCs–if market share does not improve. The exit date? 2011.

Who knows if this report is more than just a rumor or someone grumbling. However, of all the UMPCs, the Samsung Q1s are near my top as favs, eventhough I’d sure like them thinner, lighter, and a lot less expensive. Hey, what can I say, I want it all :-)

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