SSD

I went for the SSD option for my MacBook Pro as I was curious about SSD after using my iTouch, drive is very small but I store any music or videos on an external HD and this works just fine (eventually a wireless connection to a NAS will be a better solution). The SSD is great. Laptop starts up in less than 15 seconds and the battery life is excellent. I seem to be able to get about 6 - 8 hours of intermittent use which is excellent as I can take it away for a whole day without the charger.  If only it was cheaper!

Yes, needs to become cheaper and have more capacity.

The MacBook Air though is proving to be a fantastic product.

I added a SSD to my Mac Pro - the SSD only has the operating system and application program files plus caches etc. The user data is spread across two other drives plus back up drives.

Bootup time is comparable to a MacBook Air and application start time is excellent.

I think this is definitely the future.

That's a great idea for a set-up, I guess it would work on an iMac also.

Really weird starting-up so quickly after all these years.

Especially as Lion starts up how you left your computer.

As a Mac Pro user you might be interested that an Apple Business Manager questioned it's future with me at the weekend with the iMacs being so capable.

He even said that mac mini servers were replacing xserves.

iMacs require a very external interface to a disk store to be competitive with a Mac Pro - I have 5 physical drives including the SSD drive - a total of 7TB of data online and accessible and this is easily expandable as drives get bigger my current max capacity would 12TB plus the SSD  (4 by 3 TB drives) no doubt next year the 4TB drive will arrive Thai floods permitting)

Thunderbolt could be the way to get fast external data and also USB3 - but they can suffer from external cables and connections getting unconnected.

The other issue I have with the iMac is the vulnerability of only 1 spindle inside the case, if it fails you have a difficult job and delay to recover.

Also memory expansion capability and the ability to easily upgrade the screen

All of these items would keep me on a slower Mac Pro than a faster iMac