Comments on: Intel releases pricing, details on solid-state drives

Intel will sell desktop and laptop versions of its new solid-state hard drive. The 80GB drive will ship this week for about $595.

[iwarrior-poet]

'$7.43 per gigabyte'-----I think they mean megabyte...

[wlau]

People don't know the basics of computing or math shouldn't be allowed to post comments like this...

[iwarrior-poet]

'$7.43 per gigabyte'-----I think they mean megabyte...

[rkamp]

$595/80GB = $7.43/GB according to my calculator. Still not cheap.

[beaniiman]

ahh, pretty sure the drive does not cost over $594,000. May want to check your math ther iwarrior

[alenknight79]

iwarrior, a Gigabyte is 1,000 megabytes. roughly. ($595 / 80 GB ) = $7.43 / gig