Do your research Anton

There are already plenty of reviews out there, google is your friend.

As you say, some of the cheaper SSDs do not live up to expectations on many fronts. But the more expensive units do.

OCZ seem to be one of the better options, the power consumption is very low (much lower than spinning media) and the seek times and read speeds are very fast. The write speeds are only comparable with decent HDD. You do pay a significant premium for these advantages though.

Why do people have to use pejorative language like "the flash lover crowd". It doesn't help your argument, it just makes you look silly.

Interesting that the speeds intel is quoted as giving are well above anything else on the market, I'll be looking out for some real world benchmarks to test out those claims.