Apple MacBook Air: Solid State Drives taking over computer audio?

January 15, 2008 – 9:03 pm by Jonathan Grand

Today at Macworld 2008, Apple CEO, Steve Jobs, introduced what is the first introduction of a high-capacity Solid State Drive-capable Mac computer product, the MacBook Air. This may be the beginning of the end of a long wait for something better than the “slow” current hard drives with moving parts.

Solid State hard drives are made up of solid state components (just like RAM memory and USB thumb drives) to store information - giving manufacturers practically infinite possibilities to look up, read and write information at much faster speeds. They also are a lot less prone to crashes and, theoretically, data loss, since one of the main problems of current hard drives are the mechanical spinning platters. Sounds perfect for multi-track audio, right?

We will write an in-depth review of the new MacBook Air and the solid state drive performance in DAW applications, as soon as possible. Subscribe to Moozek.com for updates!