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By no means am I attempting to brag, but... When I realized there'd never come a day when we'd see 15K RPM drives in a laptop, we jumped ship from the 5.4K and 7.2K spindles to SSD...never once regretted that and never once looked back. :0)
That decision was easy, even with the huge increase in cost and the huge decrease in size. The most painful part was, during the transition phase, jumping back and forth between supporting newer devices with SSDs and older ones with spindle drives. Now, it's a distant memory.
Oh, the way things were...audio driver installed via 1-3 floppy disks against a 4.2K HDD. And the way things are now...600MB download and 3-5min installation time (not including the suggested system restart), just to produce sound!?!?! CARAZAY!
YAAAAAAAAAAASSSSS!!!!!!!!! The world is a totally different place. I had to chuckle on that trip down memory lane! I think about my first lap top that had that 4.2K HDD..., and it was the "latest"! I think I got perspective when I read that the computers that put Armstrong and Aldrin on the moon were about as powerful as my flip phone from the early 2000's. I am a "space cadet" and I consume any, and all, info on rocketry, and the like. Watching Elon Musk's launches, and thinking back to the Saturn 5 Apollo rockets, and it's two different universes, not parallel at all!
I have several laptops that I use to make service calls, but my desktop is my rig. But it makes dealing with MS shenanigans a lot easier because I can tweak the hardware to accompany the software changes. And SHOOTS! it's just a lot of fun too!