:-: First - major disclaimer: I work for Intel but not in the SSD group.

That out of the way - I got a hold of one of our new SSDs (an 80GB version) and put it in my Lenovo x61 and it made a major improvement in performance. I have seen some of the reviews of our units that claim they are the fastest out there and I asked the senior technical guys in the group that designs them for their opinion and they really believe that they have done some things algorithmically that make them the fastest around. As a senior tech person myself (different area) I understand much of what they have done and I believe them. Also, it is nice not to even think about shocks to the laptop drive as I am yanking it around. Given my last month plus of experience with the drive I can tell you I won't have a laptop without one from here on. I think the only place where a hard drive may still have an advantage (slight) is for bulk sequential streaming (large file transfer or HD media perhaps).