Originally Posted by tore

One interesting rumour I've heard about SSD HDs is that they reduce the need for memory. When the memory capacity is filled, your computer starts writing memory to hard drive instead (page file). Because an SSD hard drive transfers 450~500 MB/sec (I believe), switching to page file on an SSD doesn't mean your computer will start behaving as sluggish as one with a regular hard drive.

This means little on a regular PC which you can just squeeze gigs of ram into quite cheap, but it might factor into a hardware considerations for those thinking about whether or not to get next years Microsoft Surface Pro f.ex which is sold with a certain set of hardware.