Or have Creative Suite installed.

Or any modern sample library (which can get to 80GB for a single piano).

Or any video editing projects and/or templates.

Just some examples of professional stuff (for graphic designers, musicians/producers and videographers) that take huge space.

There's no reason to put a sample library on an SSD.

Actually there are tons of reasons.

You don't want to bring around extra drives and cables when you perform.

You don't want vibrations, bad handling etc while performing / touring etc, to crap your HDD.

You get much much faster random reads, which is what playing large sample libraries is all about.

There would be for me if the price of SSD's come down enough. With my 2011 MBP and RME Babyface taxing the computer a bit too much with USB 2.0 context switching, my 120gig of samples streamed from disk would help while running this all at 96K.

Truthfully, I never considered this use case. Are you saying the computer is taxed because the USB controller is saturated?

I put all my sample libraries on SSDs to cut down on project load times. It helps immensely.

how is not playing AAA games atypical?

GTA V made more money that most successful movies. Gaming is not an obscure niche, and AAAs are the blockbuster movies of the genre.

Only 5% of GTA V sales were for PC, the rest were on consoles

Recently "The Witcher 3" sold 4M copies in a short amount of time whereas 1.3M are attributed to PC sales [1].

Even Indie games like Cities: Skylines which is PC/Mac only recently sold more than 1M copies in a short amount of time. [2]

I don't really play much but i follow PC Gaming and it has been on the rise for years. Free to play MOBA games like League of Legends have over 8M concurrent players in peak hours with 27M people playing at least game per day. That is more than the viewership of even the most popular TV series, every day of the week.

[1] http://www.dsogaming.com/news/the-witcher-3-out-of-its-4-mil... [2] http://www.polygon.com/2015/4/14/8414099/cities-skylines-hit...

However, it's _nothing_ compared to the installed base of PCs. That's probably on the order of 2 billion. Most people don't use their computers to play AAA games, and likely not games at all (Steam only has 125m active users, say).

Perhaps the fact that the PC port was 2 years late compared to console releases should be taken into account.

The majority of computer users don't play modern AAA games. Steam claims 125 million active users (active defined we know not how, but probably generously). Some of them will be people like me; the only Steam games I currently have installed are Papers Please and FTL. It's estimated that there are ~2bn PCs in use worldwide.