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Monday, Nov 12, 2007 10:10am

Piper: SSD drives may come ...

Technology announced by Samsung may herald flash drives arriving on Mac notebooks as soon as January, say analysts at the research firm Piper Jaffray. Flash offers not only the advantage of speed, but of smaller dimesnsions, and lower power consumption. Samsung's new 64GB, 1.8-inch SSD drive may finally represent a capacity large enough for Apple to consider installing in a new MacBook, which may well be announced at the next MacWorld event in January. It is also suggested, however, that Apple could be installing a flash drive into an original product, such as the subnotebook rumored by sources including TheStreet.

On a tangential note, Jaffray says it expects the next major iPhone update to follow much later than v1.0.2 did after the initial iPhone launch. The current prediction is February, when Apple plans to open the device to third-party applications. This update may also include some form of contextual search, similar to Spotlight in Mac OS X Tiger and Leopard.