Intel SSD Prices Drop by Up to $100
Intel SSDs now a little cheaper, but still not cheap.

As we heard last week, Intel has cut prices for its solid state drives.
The consumer enthusiast line of X25-M can now be had for a little cheaper, though by no means cheap. The X25-M 80 GB model falls $50 now and can be found on Newegg for $325. The 100 GB model gets a $100 cut and is now $630 from the e-tailer.
According to ComputerWorld, Intel said the price of the enterprise SLC NAND SSD X25-E drive will remain the same. The X25-E 32 GB sells for $410 and the 64 GB model sells for $790.
With no mechanical moving parts, no spinning platters, and just really fast flash memory, a SSD is likely the best upgrade that you can perform on your rig due to the storage subsystem being the slowest part of the typical computer system.
It might be expensive, especially in relative terms compared to the capacity you could get with just $100, but with a fast SSD you’re getting more than just storage.
Uh, what? Unless your only task on the computer is loading software (and not actually using said software), an SSD does not buy you very much. If you game, that extra $200-$400 would be better spent on a GPU or CPU. If you create content (videos, whatever) you need more storage than an SSD even has. If you don't do anything very intensive, just save yourself the money.
QFT!
Although i admit i wouldn't mind having a few of these...
Most people (read: not corporations) are using SSD Hard Drives as their OS HDD, or a scratch drive for photo and video editing. This speeds up things tremendously. Whether or not it's worth the time to you is one thing...to some it is. Personally I'm fine with my 5400rpm WD Blue drive that has a really dense platter and gives me the performance of a 7200rpm drive. If/when SSD drops in price, I'll think about it.
Or was that "price's are GOING to drop?"
Anyway... to much $$ still
The problem is the fast SLC flash is expensive to produce, therefore to get any significant size, they have to be expensive.
Prices are still just to high. Hopefully next year it will be getting close.
The only drive I could consider, but probably won't anymore soon, is their lowest priced drive. But looking at the performance, I can get faster drives from the competition. Their slowest MLC drive is noticeably slower than their more expensive MLC drives.
By the time I'm going to buy a SSD drive, it won't be intel anymore.
And,crom, OCZ doesn't use the controller Intel uses. Though they are starting to become good. Especially those SATA3 SSD's.
Heck, I'm still running Sata1 on my notebook, which is less than 2 years old! time sure went by fast!
Atleast when were buying Intel they know what there doing and actually product a quality product, not rebadge a bunch of other components to make there product - i trust intel over any other SSD company any day.
Its not for the average joe just yet hence the premium
your taking quality vs quantity - two different things
http://it.anandtech.com/IT/showdoc.aspx?i=3532&p=1
They are not more expensive to make.
Companies make huge profits off early adopters that pay a premium price to have it early. They know that so they charge an arm and a leg. Also if they ease into market it is safer. Start with high profits and low volume. Then ease on into higher volume and lower prices after the manufaturing and best prectices have been perfected.