The Mac Book set to offer a new 500-gigabyte hard drives in laptops. This notebook is ready to fulfill computer maker’s hopes such as compact and light weight, stylish and slim.  These laptops will appeal to weighed-down road warriors and corporations tired of fixing the hard drives of employees’ dropped or damaged notebooks.

It consists of a solid state drives, which use flash memory, are significantly more expensive than laptops with hard drives. But with no moving parts, unlike hard disk drives, they’re also considered more reliable and rugged, boot up more quickly and can offer longer battery life.

Moving toward solid state drives
Apple’s 3-pound MacBook Air, announced last week, is one of the higher-profile examples. The laptop, with a 13-inch screen, comes in two versions. The first has an 80-gigabyte hard disk drive and the second has a 64-gigabyte solid state drive.

IDC estimated revenue of $5.4 billion in 2011

The IDC believes that ultimately it will become a big wave. Solid state drive revenues are expected to increase from $373 million in 2006 to $5.4 billion in 2011, a report shows.

Flash memory is already widely used in smaller devices like digital music players, cell phones, GPS units and cameras. Joggers who are music lovers know that a flash-based player is a better choice for their daily run compared to players with hard drives which makes it more prominent then others. The Flash-based players are quick to boot up, and didn’t face the risk of skipping or getting damaged as easily as players with hard drives does.

In short the MacBook Air is going to be the biggest hit of tech industry in 2008.