[iampivot]

Will the new MBPs that are coming in the next months have SSD hard drives? will it be the new differentiating factor between MBs and MBPs, with all MBs having superdrives from now on? What do you think?

[MacosNerd]

SSDs haven't hit the mainstream, and its a thousand dollar option on the MBAs so I doubt very much it will be made standard equipment.

I generally don't try to guess at what apple will do - I'm usually wrong anyways.

[mduell]

It's something they could do any day without much effort.

The price is dropping fast; 60GB SSDs are already under $500 and the price of flash chips is about $2.25/GB so I'd expect them to fall further this year.

[Simon]

On the next MBP you could expect an expensive SSD BTO option (low capacity and slow compared to any decent and much less expensive high-capacity 5400 or 7200 rpm drive). So far every affordable SSD has underdelivered. The few notebook SSDs that really shine are far too expensive and yet they still offer minimal capacity. They're simply not there yet. Once they're twice as fast and only twice as expensive as 2.5" HDDs, they'll start to take over on the mainstream market. Specifically in Apple world, among MBP customers there are far too may people who require decent capacity and/or high performance. Apple knows that and they will not piss those people off just so they force a new technology (that BTW also costs Apple more to use) onto them.

I'd expect to see Apple keep the Combo on the low-end MB.