Sure, I am picky too so know where your comming from, its a lot of cash, but if you got it, spend it
you'll love the machine.
Regarding SSD's, indeed they are faster, but I don't believe they are worth their price tag.
The are compared with Vraptors on a custom PC review, and I personally don't think they are worth the price tag (For example, I got a Vraptor 160GB for £50, more like £160 in the shops) compared with the best part of £400 for a 6 second increase on loading a game? (I'd wait the 6 seconds personally :P)
Here is a quote for some idea on the drive, there is no doubt it is faster, but in my opinion not fast enough for the price tag:
SIZE AND SPECS
Despite having more than double the capacity of the majority of other 2.5in SSDs, the X25-M is fairly thin, thanks to its MLC technology (
read more about MLC technology here). The main news is the disk’s performance, however. Intel claims that it has sustained read rates of 250MB/sec and a more sedate 70MB/sec write speed. By contrast, the Samsung SATA SSD (see Issue 60, p69) recorded a 174.1MB/sec sustained read and an 85.3MB/sec write speed.
TESTING
Most of our initial tests with
Simpli Software HDTach RW 3.0.1.0 matched Intel’s claims. The X25-M racked up an average read speed of
225.7MB/sec, which is more than twice as fast as Western Digital’s VelociRaptor, and approaches the maximum transfer speed of 300MB/sec of S-ATA II. The read performance was faster than Intel claimed it to be, averaging 80.1MB/sec. This is still slower than the VelociRaptor, however, which averages 97.8MB/sec when writing.
Turning to the real-world tests, the storming read performance translated into the quickest time we’ve seen for loading the Relic level of
Crysis. At 28 seconds on average,
the X25-M beat the VelociRaptor by more than six seconds, and Samsung’s 32GB SSD by four seconds.
The slower writing speed held it back in the Gimp test, however; while the score of
944 is faster than any other SSD we’ve tested, the VelociRaptor is faster still with a score of 979.
Again, if you got the dosh get it,