OCZ SSD SATAII is here...

Very much so .. if you look at the markets for this:

a) at games - it's only load times. Gamers would have 4GB of memory already.

b) developers - is of permanent use for compiles, data files etc however it has to rival putting £700 of more RAM into the machine which equates to something like ~16GB.

c) Laptop owners (see above too) - is of use on a train and on the move too.
 
If you can afford those sort of prices, you should take a look at a FusionIO drive, which is a little bigger (80GB) but connects over PCI-E and can provide almost 10x the sustained performance and IOPS of an SSD.
 
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FusionIO - interesting, although Windows XP/Vista and OSX support is specified as later half of 2008.. just in time for Intel's entrance.

With $2,800 for 80GB.. knowing the US-UK exchange rate of 1:1 then £2800 is way beyond this cost.. infact you can get raid 0 SSDs or even just plug 32GB of RAM in a Mac Pro instead for example.
Also it's not currently bootable.
 
Although we found that the sequential throughput does not reach the interface bandwidth, the next SSD generation will certainly have to use SATA/300 instead of SATA/150 to avoid the interface becoming a bottleneck. When we compared four Memoright 32-GB flash SSDs to four Seagate Savvio 10K.2 2.5” SAS drives and four 3.5” WD1500 Raptor drives, we found the conventional drives don’t stand a chance against the four Memoright device. A 0.2-ms access time is amazing for a RAID 0 array (vs. 7.4 ms for the Seagate Savvio 10K.2 and 8.5 ms for WD’s Raptors). The Memoright flash SSDs also sustain a minimum write transfer rate of 323 MB/s in RAID 0, while the Savvios drop to 199 MB/s and the Raptors go down to 177 MB/s. The read throughput of 450 MB/s for the Mtron quartet is equally impressive.
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All I can say is varooom! Although the Memoright is actually only an SATA/150 device compared to the HDs there being SATA/300.
 
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