So I have a 2009 13" Macbook Pro, and I don't really want to replace it yet. Performance is still fairly decent, and since I don't really play games on it beyond the odd round of Diablo 3 (and I used to play EvE on it), replacing it didn't seem to have a lot of benefit.
That said, I would still like to eke out some better performance, and a friend of mine suggested that since I've already maxed the RAM I should just swap out the HDD for an SSD of similar size now that SSDs of 256GB or lower are priced pretty decently.
Question is 2-fold:
1) Am I likely to see an actual performance improvement (I know there will be some, but not sure whether it would be worth the cost)?
2) What is the least painful way to do that? The way I hear it from random Google links is backup my current drive to Time Machine, use Lion to make a USB boot drive, install the SSD, restore from Time Machine, but I'd like a sanity check on this one from the folks here, if possible.
That said, I would still like to eke out some better performance, and a friend of mine suggested that since I've already maxed the RAM I should just swap out the HDD for an SSD of similar size now that SSDs of 256GB or lower are priced pretty decently.
Question is 2-fold:
1) Am I likely to see an actual performance improvement (I know there will be some, but not sure whether it would be worth the cost)?
2) What is the least painful way to do that? The way I hear it from random Google links is backup my current drive to Time Machine, use Lion to make a USB boot drive, install the SSD, restore from Time Machine, but I'd like a sanity check on this one from the folks here, if possible.