CDP's being dumped for hard drive driven units?

Yes. Works great. Plus it works with my Sonos system.

Not now, but when 1TB Solid state drives start selling for $100-$150...then maybe, but will still have a SACD/CD player.

SS drive is included in new ASUS .......
like this one for around $400.
My buddy bought one and couldn't be happier. It isn't exactly MacBook Air but close....... considering that it was made by total screw-ups and runs on greed driven operating system.
SS drives are quite a leap forward but keep in mind that these are first generation models and you will never catch up with either software or hardware.
It is a loose-loose situation for customers .....as always.

As to SACD as a format............they come and go - who knows what will they come up with next to screw us again. As far as I am concern, "Red Book" and LP is my format of choice and will be for quite some time.

I don't think they are going away any time soon, fortunately. At least I hope so. I hate change...