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digitimes.com - 7/2/2009

Windows 7 will not help SSD sales much, say notebook vendors

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Windows 7's support for SSDs will not do much to boost sales because the price gap with HDDs is still too high, according to sources at notebook vendors.

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blogs.zdnet.com - 7/2/2009

Microsoft to offer Family Pack for Windows 7 Home Premium

— blogs.zdnet.com — Every time the subject of OS licensing comes up, Apple's defenders point to the OS X Family Pack as one of the biggest differentiators between their favorite OS and Windows. But it looks like that difference is likely to go away when Windows 7 is ... (more) Microsoft to offer Family Pack for Windows 7 Home Premium

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nvidia.com - 7/8/2009

Every PC needs good graphics.

— nvidia.com — Premium Windows 7 Experience Graphics processing units (GPUs) are an essential element of today’s PCs, enabling more visual and more interactive experiences. As a leader in visual computing and the inventor of the GeForce GPU, NVIDIA worked closely ... (more) Every PC needs good graphics.

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Thursday Shortbread
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Windows 7 Won't be the Savior of SSDs
Maximum PC — ... If solid state drives (SSDs) are to ultimately replace standard hard disk drives (HDDs) as the default storage option, they're going to have to do it the old fashioned way - by offering a better, or at least comparable, bang for buck. ...

Windows 7 will not help SSD sales much, say notebook vendors
DriverHeaven.net — Windows 7's support for SSDs will not do much to boost sales because the price gap with HDDs is still too high, according to sources at notebook vendors. Since current SSDs are priced around US$4-5 per GB, while HDDs cost less than US$0.50 per GB, the sources expect SSDs are unlikely to become the mainstream specification for at ...

Windows 7 unlikely to affect SSD sales?
TechSpot — Although Microsoft already supports the use of solid state drives in Windows Vista and XP, Windows 7 will be their first operating system actually optimized and designed with SSD performance in mind. Will its forthcoming release boost adoption of such drives, however? According to Digitimes, their cost is simply too prohibitive to make that a reality, with most drives still on the order of ten times more costly per gigabyte than traditional disks. As a result of that, sources at notebook vendors estimate that by the end of the year, SSDs will compose a mere 1% of the market. ...

Windows 7 not expected to boost SSD sales
DV Hardware — Notebook vendors expect the arrival of Windows 7 will not have a large impact on solid state disk sales, largely because the price gap with HDDs is still too high. DigiTimes heard that only 1 percent of all notebooks shipped this year will feature a SSD. Since current SSDs are priced around US$4-5 per ...