Final Cut With SSDs: experiences or opinions?

Hi all,
I'm looking to get a new MacBook Pro, and I'm swithering as to whether to go trad drive or solid state. I have (of course) read any number of opinions pro and con on any number of sites, and as such I am none the wiser.
Is anyone using FCS on the MBP with solid state? If so - what do you think?
Cheers,
d

FCP will be running off the boot drive. A solid 7200 rpm is more than sufficient for booting FCP.
I really can't see any benefit to running FCP off a SSD over a SATA at 7200.
The benefit can be in a SSD external SATA media drive.

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