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Well it looks like Intel are making some decent progress with their generation of 25nm SSDs. They're planning on doubling the capacity of the current SSDs, for the same price.

Let me explain

Currently the 40Gb Intel X25 SSD G2 is £80, this will be replaces with an 80Gb Intel X25 SSD G3, which will also be priced £80

Not really worthy of a piece of industry news, but might this tempt you to go SSD?

£1 per GB still isn't highly tempting for me when i can get 1,000 GB for £40. But that's me, i don't have any real use for a solid state drive other than to say i have one. My machine boots to the Internet within 30 seconds.

Personally, I'd use SSD for Boot files only. 40GB would be ideal. That's Windows 7, XP & Linux. Everything I'll ever need.

In honesty I would love an SSD boot but I have no reason for one.

Win XP, certain games I play regularly and Photoshop would go on the SSD and everything else on a Spinpoint F3, but since I don't have a photoshop rig anymore it's pointless