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Or people who can't shell out the money for SSDs

I think the point is that the lowest priced laptop hard drives you can find on Newegg are about $50. However, you can get a 128GB SSD for $100. 128GB is easily enough for simple use, even with a smallish music and photos library.

The $50 tier of conventional hard drives does include 500GB models, but that only benefits a different type of customer.

Furthermore if a customer is trying to save $50, and has very light storage needs, there are 60GB SSDs that can be found for $50.

>Or people who can't shell out the money for SSDs

I was talking about the SSD vs HDD decision. Not about people who don't have the money to do either.

SSDs are still considered 'luxury' items, like $1000 graphics cards. Don't forget that a 60GB SSD costs roughly the same as a 1TB HDD, and people do like bigger numbers.

People in the market for new PCs would typically start off with a HDD, before shelling out more money for an SSD.

>people do like bigger numbers.

Ah yes of course. I'm prone to seeing tech decisions from a more technical perspective only. I see what you mean though, the less technically sophisticated people probably drive more of the demand based on numbers alone.

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