I am the same with Bosch dishwasher wash machine both years old and good as new, if only Bosch made laptops

I (the company) just bought a new laptop for the wife (director) she likes em big  so got a 17"

I made the chap at the shop run the vista performance thing on every 15" and above laptop in the shop( i did this in 3 shops lol) and compared the core2duos against the dual core intels and there really wasn't a great difference the higher FSB ones did do slightly better but only slightly, I ended up going for one with an AMD cpu was cheaper and only fell 0.1 points short in the cpu benchmark. Linky

Did you look at any of the sub notebooks with SSD HDs in Jan? I would have thought they run overall faster than the standard HDD ones?

SD.

Didn't know they also make dishwashers tbh they are really famous here for their power tools.
The best power drills and cordless screwdrivers you can get here for home improvement imo  ([Grunting] Uhh-uhh-uhh  )

I always end up with AMD CPUs everywhere
 (usually because of the lower price and only very little performace loss)

I would wait with SSD HDs till the next generation of boards is out/in the stores (with SATA-III or SATA 6 Gbit/s).
Sure rates from 200 up to 278MB/s is fast (like the OCZ Vertex HD Series has) but how often do you really need this speed, Especially on a "normal" laptop? And 320Euros for a 120 GB 2,5" drive is much imo.
And what Jan said there are big diff. between diff. SSD types/manufactorers.

btw:
I use 1TB drives in a 1Gigabit network and often move really big files around and 60 up to 100 MB/s is for me enough atm. HD to HD transfer speed is 110MB/s which is also fast enough imo. Especially for the low TB price we have atm

Anyaway I would a t least wait another year before I take heed of SSDs.

Hurray!