I built my first system with a SSD a few months back. I'm using the Samsung 840 Pro 128GB for my boot drive (500GB Western Digital Caviar Black for audio). They make a HUGE difference in snappyness of the system. I haven't timed the boot, but the Windows splash screen appears for about a second at the most before the desktop. Super quick. Copying files and running installs etc are zippy too.
I just bought an Asus Windows 8 laptop with the SSD used as cache for the HDD as Hopi mentioned earlier. Not near the speed of running SSD as your program drive, but helps a little. Nothing drastic in speed over a HDD though.
I'll throw in my specs of my build real quick as reference of a stable machine:
i7 4770K cpu
Asus z87-a LGA 1150 mobo
16GB Corsair Vengeance low profile RAM
CPU fan Noctua NH-D14
Fractal Define R4 case
Focusrite 2i4 interface
Samsung 840 Pro 128GB boot drive
WD Caviar Black 500GB data drive
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