Worth it. Just don't buy overpriced from Apple. Check out the latest Anandtech articles before buying because there are big differences in performance. Replacin

Worth it. Just don't buy overpriced from Apple. Check out the latest Anandtech articles before buying because there are big differences in performance. Replacing a drive is very simple. For development, since the biggest gains are on small file access performance it makes There are a few extras/gotchas: disable motion sensor (unnecessary with solid state drives), disable journaling (command line only since 10.6), increase a bit the write buffers. There are articles explaining this on macosxhints and other sites. I recommend you do all this before using the system and moving all your things there. Perhaps keep your old drive as external storage and backup for a while. Disclaimer: watch out on voiding guarantees, data corruption, and other issues. YMMV