Flash ram pricing

There’s been a bit of a rumbling over the web in various forms over the price of the Apple MacBook Air. These concerns have been mainly based around a misunderstanding of different engineering techniques and standard in the manufacture of flash ram.

It seems – and obviously if you consider the amount of reading and writing a flash ram HDD substitute would engage in – that there is a considerable difference in price between the ram used in iPods and that used in the MacBook Air.

The price is different of course because the ram is different. There are in fact a number of different standards of flash ram, of which that used in the MacBook Air is one of the most stable, high-end solutions.

However knowing exactly what is going on in the world of flash ram is very useful for informing opinion on the future of media storage…

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