I recently purchased a Dell Laptop with an SSD drive in it.
I must say I was very impressed with how fast it was on boot up.
After that, the excitement of it leveled off from there.
I guess the greatest benefit I saw from it was the durability that it has as well as the battery life is definitely better than using a regular hard drive.
Some sites, including SamSung are touting extreme 60MB/sec speeds.
I have only noticed a moderate speed up compared to my 5400 RPM hard drive.
When I compared it with my highend laptop that has a 7200 RPM drive it was near or just below the same speeds when doing side by side comparisons.
What was really cool about the SSD was when I started playing a video and actually shook my laptop it ran as if nothing was happening.
I took an older laptop of mine (I have a ton of them), and played the same video and shook the laptop and it almost immediately crashed.
For all you road warriors out there SSD is definitely a must.
My advice, don't buy the SSD's for speed or fast boot up times, the price does not justify it, but rather buy them if you want reliability and longer lasting laptop.
I have been in charge of supplying laptops for years to a traveling consultant base, and the lifespan on laptops due to hard drive failures is pretty short.
I was replacing HD and reimaging almost 90% of my time.
Once I started purchasing the SSD's I have not seen any of them fail yet.
Its only been a few months, but check back and I will supply updates as I move forward.
Applecore