Intel's SSD is the best thing that my veteran ACER Aspire TC130 ever happened and I'm assuming that in the future when the SSDs are cheaper, they are used as a boot drive. Installing Windows 7 HP was already an experience. No noise, no heat generation from the drive and happen at lightning speed. For the boot process and the most important software of the system (incl. MS Office 2007 Home and Student) are the 40 GB fully sufficient. My experience I have to make with regard to the administration under WIN 7 and the deletion behavior. The installation of other software runs partly slower than before. The call for installation is very fast and also the operations of any software; what it is, I do not know. Video files and other stores I take on an eSATA hard drive before (externally via Shargoon). Who is a little experiment, it should try with Intel's SSD, he will not regret it, especially since it is in terms of costs manageable.