I recently did this exact thing -- bought a Lenovo laptop with a 5400 RPM disk drive, and immediately popped it out and replaced it with a Crucial MX100 SSD. In

I recently did this exact thing -- bought a Lenovo laptop with a 5400 RPM disk drive, and immediately popped it out and replaced it with a Crucial MX100 SSD. Installed Linux, it works great :)