* I built a dual-core 3.0ghz system 6 months ago, the performance margin was a joke as *all* the frustratingly slow things that used to happen on my old laptop, still happen on the desktop and are still just as slow. NOTE: They are all heavy read/write operations.

* SSDs aren’t affordibly priced yet and even if you are willing to lay down the $4-600 for a 128gb, there is all this talk about SLCs and MLCs and shitty controller logic and write limitations and data loss and how new filesystems and controllers are all coming out this year — sounds a lot like the SSD arena is going to spend this year maturing it’s processes… I’d hate to be a tester for that.