crucial's 1TB SSD is only 600 dollars. while a lot, it's considerably less than they were before.... in a few years, while HDDs will still offer large capacity cheaply, i think SSDs will be standard.
crucial's 240gb is only like 200. worth it, imo, to run all applications, while you get a few hdds for all media storage
im looking to build this year but waiting a bit for haswell processors to be released... the 4770K is gonna be $327 at release at 3.5ghz. or the extreme ivy bridge... 3.6 with 6 core... but that's late q2, q3 we're talking this year before they are out...
also since the girl scouts mentioned phones, google's i/o reportedly won't have nexus 5 or google x, but will have nexus 4 with LTE which means.... im finally upgrading my phone lol