[Slump Tester]

No, I'm saying buy something with an solid state drive. No moving parts to fail, just ram. They'll make even an old turd computer from 7 years ago (Assuming it's SATA)scream.

Right now Newegg has a 60Gb on sale for $50. That's plenty of size for a boot drive, and you can always use a cheap USB drive for additional storage.

[Chickensoup]

No, I’m saying buy something with an solid state drive. No moving parts to fail, just ram. They’ll make even an old turd computer from 7 years ago (Assuming it’s SATA)scream.
Right now Newegg has a 60Gb on sale for $50. That’s plenty of size for a boot drive, and you can always use a cheap USB drive for additional storage.

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Interesting. Daunting but interesting.

[usconservative]

I think you missed the ;-) at the end.

Totally get ya on the SSD drive. I have an AMD FX-8350 on an MSI M5A97 R2.0 motherboard with 32gb of memory and dual Samsung 840 EVO SSD boot drives. (1 Windows, 1 Linux.)

Difference between booting this machine with HDD vs. SSD:

Western Digital Blue 500gb 64mb Cache SATA 3: 22 Seconds to Login Prompt in Windows.

Samsung 840 EVO SSD: 11 seconds to Login Prompt in Windows.

Database operations that used to take 2-3 minutes on SATA 3 take less than 15-20 seconds on SSD.

Oh yeah, if you can find a reasonable laptop with a big enough SSD drive at a reasonable price, I'd say go for it. Better make the recovery disk for it though because it'll be needed when that SSD drive fails. (ALL Laptop drives fail sooner or later. My experience has been sooner....)

I prefer Samsung SSD drives myself. Reliability seems to be good, and they have the best performance around.