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Depends ... I have been running a 7200 rpm (3.5inch drive mind you) ... Samsung Spinpoint drive ... Visual Studio on Windows starts up in less than a second ... this is a considerable improvement over my last 7200rpm drive, which Visual Studio would take upto ten seconds to start.
The new Samsung spinpoint drive the "F4" is a 5400 rpm and manages the same seek time .... god knows how. TBH, Windows 7 and think MacOSX cache apps in memory whenever possible to get around hardrive speed issues when loading up regularly used apps.
It ultimately depends however on what you are doing as always. I have bought dual SSDs mainly because I could ... I do Web Dev which means I don't really need high performance ... those who do music, video or graphics will probably have very different requirements.
Nothing though will be faster than SSD.