Apple refuses to hard drives in the MacBook Pro in favor of SSD

Ben Reytzes from analyst firm Barclays Equity Research believes that Apple's success in the field of promotion of flash storage based on solid state NAND flash drives in mobile devices will be extended to laptops MacBook Pro.

 

According to the analyst, in a new generation of professional line of laptop computers with Mac OS X will be made at the rate of data storage on SSD-drives instead of traditional hard drives. This, in turn, will have a huge impact on the industry and the price of flash storage will fall much faster.

Of course, the unit cost of solid-state storage media, significantly higher than that of hard drives, but users are delighted with the superior performance of the with which the work of flash drives, even modest amounts.

The growing popularity of cloud storage, which can be downloaded the same audio, video or photo collection will help reduce the need for huge drives the local character. It is possible that Apple will increase the capacity of a cloud free iCloud. In any case, the new MacBook Pro and MacBook Air will offer more serious in terms of SSD-drives, rather than those established in these laptops now.

 

Meanwhile, Seagate Technology, one of the leading players in the market of hard disk drives, reported on the offensive exploring technology that promises very high density data storage. It is a magnetic recording with a heated (heat-assisted magnetic recording, HAMR), which even in its initial implementation will provide the recording density of 1 Tb of data per square inch, over time, bringing the embodiment of notebook hard disk drives in volume 10-20 TB. Seagate said that the new product offers superior performance for the HDD, previously considered impossible.

iPad mini and iPhone 5 in a metal case will be released in September

Analyst Brian White of the company's Topeka Capital believes that the next generation iPhone, and compact tablet iPad mini Apple will be announced this fall- Or rather, in September. In this device can get a shell made from a solid piece of aluminum, a similar case laptop MacBook Pro.

 

Last year, White accurately predicted the emergence of various new Apple devices on the market, thus proving that the owner is informed sources close to the company. The conclusion that the new iPhone will be a metal housing which will make the company Hon Hai Precision, the expert did after visiting factories in China and Taiwan. White confirms  previous reports  that the gadget will start production in the first month of summer, and the device will debut on the market only in the fall.

It is unlikely that the smartphone will be manufactured from a special alloy, known as "liquid metal", he said. Note that the last week in the network have pictures of the back of the new iPhone, which is made ​​of metal and has a smaller dock connector.

Analyst opinion of his colleagues, according to which the iPhone 5 will support networks of the fourth-generation LTE. The technology for high-speed wireless data support some version of the last device on the Today Apple - third tablet iPad.

The fact that Apple is going to introduce a new iPhone this fall, it was obvious, however, the September presentation a little bit at odds with the universal hopes to see the unit in October. As for the model iPad mini, then talk about it already bored - if Apple really will meet to announce such a device, it will be an interesting precedent, contrary to the arguments of many observers.