MCST puts SSD in all of their workstations (except for 801PC2 which only got 1Tb HDD due to the lack of mSATA port on the mobo -- I’ve told them it’s a gross regression and SATA SSD would still be much preferred).

They do push Linux (and we do too) but some of the customers are stuck with win32 software at the moment; wine+rtc does the trick but that’s a bit different story as you might know already.

I’ll try conveying your message on «too much RAM» there as I concur overall, 32 Gb is only really needed for massive computing tasks or multiuser work on today’s desktop.