my friend is a tech and all his top end lappys are virtual tax write off's, so price isnt such big deal for those lucky ppl i guess, he said he paid about 800-1000 for his samsung 250 MB/s read 256, full speed, but he got a slower kingston 100 mb/s read V series 128GB for his desktop, just for OS, cost about 250 bucks, and is still 10 times faster than his high end HDD's, i could bve remembering some details incorrectly, dont take my word for it, i only know what i saw!