Fujitsu recently announced that they would be revitalizing two of their notebook line by providing optional solid-state disk or SSD. The said notebook lines are the touchscreen, ultra-portable notebooks, LifeBook P1610 and the Lifebook 6210. The optional storage device that can be used in place of the traditional hard disk drive (HDD) is the 16GB or 32GB SSD. Fujitsu sees this as a promising avenue for having faster transfer rates, lower access times, silent operations and of course longer battery life. These are great benefits and you can rest easy.

But the foreseeable drawback about the optional SSDs is the price. For the 16GB SSD option you have to have cash up front of $650. For the 32GB SSD you’d have to take out $1,300. Is that a good deal or what? Another worrying thing as well is the limited capacity of the flash drive.

Two months ago Fujitsu started offering flash memory on some of the P-series and Q-series notebooks in Japan. This will be the first time that Fujitsu will offer said feature in America.