As recently as 2 years ago, Lenovo tried to sell me a laptop with a mechanical HDD. They actually succeeded -- their price for an SSD was insane -- but I ripped

As recently as 2 years ago, Lenovo tried to sell me a laptop with a mechanical HDD. They actually succeeded -- their price for an SSD was insane -- but I ripped it out and replaced it immediately. Today a mechanical HDD isn't even an option. The new generation of the same machine is offered only with a PCIe SSD. That's just one point of anecdata, but I think it's a pretty stark one.