it'll be a few years before you guys get one then

Ive got 2 of them, one for OS + apps, second for games and theyre indeed brilliant, so i concur with the recommendation.

When it comes to the wear leveling and maximum number of writes, there is absolutely no need to worry with this. I have Intel SSD toolbox installed and it says that after about 9 months of the SSD usage, there was about 500GB written (on the system disk). With this 500GB i am still at 99 percent with the Media Wearout Indicator, so in 9 months the SSD did not wear a single percent off its maximum write "capacity". I saw somewhere a screenshot, where some random fella had 1,5 TB of writes and the Wearout Indicator was at 98 percent. This is pretty good, i reckon it will die due some circuit failure long before those memory cells wear out completely.

Standard platters align tiny magnetic domains to store data, while SSDs push charge (in the form of electrons) into a tiny bit of silicon oxide.  It's the same memory that your BIOS is written into.  While there is a finite write cycle on these (coming from the small amount of damage that happens each time you force electrons into or out of the silicon oxide), it's no worse than what happens to the standard samarium-cobalt mixture that coats your drive; you're doing damage to the crystal structure of that material when you write it or read it.  From what I know, it's more likely you'll lose your drive to heat or electrical shock (SSDs are more susceptible to both of these than traditional platter drives).  That write wearout indicator is looking at the voltage needed to push a certain number of electrons into the gate oxide in and SSD; it creeps up slowly over time as damage accumulates.  Obviously, from other posters, it's not that much.

just a little bit of simple comparison between
1 a seagate 160gb hdd,
2 a verbatim 64gb ssd-go and
3 a gskill phenix pro 128gb ssd,
all sata 2 drives on a sata 2 controller in win7 64 bit in the windows performance score chart

the seagate scored 5.9 (from my experience the hdds all score approx the same ie 5.9)

the verbatim 64gb ssd-go scored 6.1(my idea is that it the lack of latencey for the spinning disc that helps)

the gskill pheonix pro 128gb ssd score 7.6( better controller and faster memory cells).

so my advice is look at the sandforce controller drives, esspecially those with the higher read AND write speeds(higher IOPS numbers)

harpo