The combination of SSD and cloud should be a powerful driver of laptop systems, said Andrew Reichmann, an analyst with Forrester Research.

Large hard drives will no longer be considered an advantage in laptops, as higher performing machines store frequently accessed data locally and everything else in the cloud.

Apple is currently the world's largest consumer of semiconductor technology. Apple currently uses NAND flash in its iPad, iPod, iPhone, MacBook Air and MacBook Pro lines. The iPad alone accounted for 78% of global NAND technology shipments in 2011.

According to IHS iSuppli, Apple's iPad tablet is expected to in media tablets at least through 2015.

"It's interesting. SSD in the MacBook Pro is definitely going to increase the volume of SSDs shipped in the world, and that will have a downward impact on pricing," Reichmann said.