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Apple's all-flash MacBook Pro, iCloud drive industry changes

11.06.2012
Today's announcement that Apple's top-end MacBook Pro won't have a hard drive -- the new ones will run only solid-state drives -- marks the latest, and perhaps most important move in an an industry trend towards SSD-only systems that use cloud-based storage services.

Pricing for Apple's top-end MacBook Pro starts at $2,199 and includes a 2.3GHz quad-core chip, 8GB of RAM and 256GB SSD. Apple also announced 512GB and 768GB SSD MacBook Pro models.

The new MacBook Pro is 0.71 inches thick, weighs 4.46 pounds and uses Apple's latest Retina display technology.

Apple also announced a 512GB SSD option for its MacBook Air netbook, which doubles capacity from the previous 256GB maximum flash capacity.

Apple Monday also announced that its iCloud online storage service will be included with its laptops, doing for data and applications what the iTunes service did for digital music.

From here on out, anytime a user signs into a new MacBook Pro or Air with their Apple ID, the systems will automatically configure apps to work with iCloud. Anything stored in its cloud will be accessible on any other devices with the iCloud download.