I bought a 40G Intel for my Dell D830 last month and I LOVE IT. Currently, I’m running Win7 Ultimate. I chose to pay a little more for name brand; other SSD manufacturers have larger drives for less. I don’t mind, I’m only using 20G.
+ It takes 20 seconds from the time I press the power on button, till I enter my password!
+ All applications generally start faster, other than that I can’t really feel the difference
+ Battery life has increased ~20%
+ as noted previously, it’s incredibly convenient to toss around the laptop and not have to worry about damaging a sector on a spinning platter
– It’s only a 40G HD, so I have all my data on a separate machine. This works out well for me b/c this laptop is used for internet/coffee shop computing
