I've got an expensive SSD in my cheap laptop (free, actually, it was the one they gave me at Microsoft PDC 2009) and it really makes a huge difference. This che

I've got an expensive SSD in my cheap laptop (free, actually, it was the one they gave me at Microsoft PDC 2009) and it really makes a huge difference. This cheap little laptop, with the SSD, hooked up to a huge monitor, is one of the best dev environments I've ever used.