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Solid State Drives (SSDs) are getting a lot of buzz these days, especially on the PC side where SSD's are becoming a storage option for many PC laptops. The only Apple notebook available so far with optional SSD storage is the MacBook Air, which can be had with a last-generation technology 64 GB SSD for only $599 more than the slightly larger capacity 80 GB standard hard drive. However, that may change in a couple of weeks with the expected rollout of a major redesign of the MacBook and MacBook Pro. It will surprise me if there is not an SSD option on the new MacBook Pro at least - probably a 128 GB one.

I remain not yet convinced that SSDs represent an advance for general-computing laptop users over the tried-and-true electromechanical hard drive, and I'm skeptical about them ever completely displacing the hard drive, at least with the flash memory technology currently available or on the horizon. What may transpire in the future is of course an imponderable.