
One of the advantages of this is that DDR3 will finally go mainstream next year and that this will obviously result in big price drops, making the memory more competitive against the cheap(er) DDR2 memory.
So if you are shocked with the current prices of DDR3 just give it some time and X38 chipset will finally prove the real power of this new low voltage memory and a next generation mobile platform will certainly help the prices to go down.