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Allright, so far so good on the large drives here. But you may have a point.
It's somehow logical to buy big drives nowadays as they are so cheap. You almost forget the downsides.

I didn't know SSD's weren't stable yet. I haven't got one myself. I will put one in some of my PC's at some point. Just a 64gb one or so. My hard drive is now partitioned 60/the rest on almost every PC. Some have 60/something/something, but my Windows 7 partition is always just 60 gigs. That's enough. I could easily replace that with an SSD.

The 9600GT... Well I originally had a 7600GT in that PC. But then I wanted to play GTA4... So I had to buy something more brutal, and a bigger power supply.

If I had the money I'd upgrade. I know this is almost 'old crap' already. But I really don't need more now. It all works just fine. My ex has a Powerbook Pro 15" i7 thing and I can't say it's that much faster for audio/video/photo-editing. It is faster in starting up the programs and yes it does render a bit faster. And I'm sure it will cope better with HD video. But since I don't do HD video and I mainly to audio and photography anyway, I don't see a reason to upgrade. And I'd never spend so much money on a laptop anyway. A Laptop will never be a 'real' PC.

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