Upgrading your old MacBook with a new SSD and a little more RAM could result in significant performance gains, as a video from TUAW demonstrates.
Playing around with a new MacBook Air in the shops brought back that feeling of "click it and it happens" to OS X, but I found myself unable to afford one unless I could sell my old machine first. After several weeks of trying, with no one offering what I felt was a fair price for my equipment, I instead decided to upgrade my old hardware with a solid-state drive and some more RAM.
Check out the before and after video below which shows a near 4x speed improvement by adding 2GB of RAM and a 240 GB Mercury Extreme Pro SSD from Other World Computing to an Early 2008 MacBook Pro.
[Update: video replaced with another example]
Playing around with a new MacBook Air in the shops brought back that feeling of "click it and it happens" to OS X, but I found myself unable to afford one unless I could sell my old machine first. After several weeks of trying, with no one offering what I felt was a fair price for my equipment, I instead decided to upgrade my old hardware with a solid-state drive and some more RAM.
Check out the before and after video below which shows a near 4x speed improvement by adding 2GB of RAM and a 240 GB Mercury Extreme Pro SSD from Other World Computing to an Early 2008 MacBook Pro.
[Update: video replaced with another example]