Originally Posted By: mlord
I also need to think hard (again) about shoehorning a real SSD into it somehow.

Mmm.. turns out that is easier now than ever.

eBay is chock full of very fast CF cards with decent wear-leveling -- essentially true SSDs in CF casings.

And there are also lots of PATA ("IDE") SSDs of various interfaces showing up there -- older notebooks can finally be upgraded to the modern era!

Cheers