Great review, and will note the info about Vista if I even go to put that OS on my M1730.
I have just ordered an Inspiron M1730 with 2 X Samsumg 64Gb SSD’s in RAID0 configuration. I specced Windows XP (Vista is too buggy for me). The PC will be here in a week and I will report back. I imagine though, that 128GB of SSD in RAID0 should boot the OS in about 5 seconds 