I finally got tired of waiting for the prices to drop further so I bought me a little from-me-to-me present, the Intel X25-M SSD. Ubuntu 9.04 already boots pretty fast, but with this drive it’s amazing! As you can read from the chart belove it takes around 10 seconds to get to the login screen. When I bought it I had hoped that it would make NetBeans and compilation of some semi-heavy Java projects more snappy, but it turnes out that the CPU was a much larger bottleneck than I had expected.
