Difference expected to be less than 100% compared to 10/100 switches

With pretty much every new motherboard shipping with a GbE controller, it seems a bit silly that GbE switches are not more popular.  While GbE is overkill for a standard internet connection, transfer rates are roughly the same as the burst rate on newer hard disks so those with home networks and doing media servers might want to keep an eye out for impending price drops this year on GbE switches

Demand for Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) switches is expected to surge substantially by the end of 2005 due to a narrowing of the price gap between the GbE and 10/100 Mbps switches, predicts JC Liao, president of Taiwan-based networking equipment maker D-Link.

The popularity of WiFi has kind of overshadowed things on the GbE front. I'm still running CAT5 on the floor between rooms and it is an eye sore.