From the admittedly not very good benchmarks provided - I don't see the appeal. I get the appeal of a potential hybrid - but I don't think this is it.
I replaced my system drive with an 80 gig Intel X25-M G2 a while ago (late-2009 macbook pro) and performed a few other tweaks (which really may or may not matter in the long run...)
My machine shuts down in less than 2 seconds and boots from power off to ready to rock on the desktop in 20 seconds... and while before I used to say "well who cares about boot time, I never reboot"..... I've now realized that I never rebooted because rebooting was something to be avoided, because it took so long. (not that it was long, but it was past that threshold where booting became an event by itself you had to endure).
Now that I can have the thing booted about as fast as I can pour a cup of coffee, and shut it down faster than it used to go into sleep mode (and sleep mode is instant, plus you don't have to wait for spindown before yanking it off the table and running to the next meeting anyway) I'll stick with my solid-state goodness for my portable machine.
I replaced my system drive with an 80 gig Intel X25-M G2 a while ago (late-2009 macbook pro) and performed a few other tweaks (which really may or may not matter in the long run...)
My machine shuts down in less than 2 seconds and boots from power off to ready to rock on the desktop in 20 seconds... and while before I used to say "well who cares about boot time, I never reboot"..... I've now realized that I never rebooted because rebooting was something to be avoided, because it took so long. (not that it was long, but it was past that threshold where booting became an event by itself you had to endure).
Now that I can have the thing booted about as fast as I can pour a cup of coffee, and shut it down faster than it used to go into sleep mode (and sleep mode is instant, plus you don't have to wait for spindown before yanking it off the table and running to the next meeting anyway) I'll stick with my solid-state goodness for my portable machine.