Good lord it's fast.
17" macbookpro5,2 (unibody/integrated battery, second revision)
2.8GHz 6MB L2 cache CPU
4GB RAM
500GB 5400 rpm HDD
Plus an 80GB Intel X25-M G2, second generation MLC 34nm SATA flash drive, which is used as the primary/boot drive. The 5400 rpm drive went where the optical drive normally lives, with the help of a minisata-minisata adapter and caddy. The 9.5mm caddy is known to work well in 13",15" and 17" macbook pro when the faceplate is taken off, since it's a slotload design casing:
http://newmodeus.com/shop/index.php?main_page=index[HTML_REMOVED]cPath=2[HTML_REMOVED]zenid=3f2b9faa0ecd16859e237bc416c37180
Optical drives are obsolete, anything I care about has a .DMG image of it made and I always have a couple of decent speed 16GB and 32GB flash drives around.
When memory prices drop to something reasonable it'll have 8GB. 4GB is a bit constraining with all of the possibilities of vmware fusion and guest operating systems. I should be able to fit my 12GB WinXP Pro guest machine nicely on the boot drive with the OS and applications and most commonly used data.
And it actually gets 7.5 hours real world constant usage battery life.
For those who haven't read it yet, to better understand SSD drives start with the March 2009 SSD anthology:
http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3531
Then read the X25-M G2 preview:
http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3607
And the in depth August 2009 roundup comparing it to other drives:
http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3631
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