Buying MacBook Unibody next week - upgrades?

[Uchiha1911]

Evening forum!
I've thought it over and over and I'm going to purchase the MacBook over the MacBook Pro because I like the overall look better =)

Now, my question is.. which upgrades will be worth paying for (in terms of plain performance)?
I WILL be multi-tasking a lot and I'll be doing some photo editing here and there I'll be using Illustrator quite commonly. Other than that, the day-to-day usage (mail, iTunes, QuickTime) can't be left out.

For this little 'project' I'm on a budget of €1400,- (-€850,- for the MacBook = €550,- left for possible upgrades).

As I said, I WILL be multi-tasking quite a lot, so I think an upgrade to 4GB RAM will be imminent, won't it?
Also, I've been looking into upgrading to an SSD (Intel X25-M/OCZ Vertex), would this really be worth the price? I read some reviews and the benchmarks blow me away, the system itself would become a lot faster using an SSD (reading-wise).

Now, my last question: does anyone have any suggestions about (other) possible upgrades that I could perform?

Thanks again

 

[spinnerlys]

Unofficially you can upgrade to 8GB of RAM, use MRoogle to find some threads about it.

 

[ss957916]

Isn't the 'MacBook Unibody' now a MacBook Pro?

 

[spinnerlys]

Isn't the 'MacBook Unibody' now a MacBook Pro?

Unibody WHITE MacBook
or WHITE Unibody MacBook

 

[lyons238]

i have 4gb of crucial ram (u can actually unofficially upgrade to 8gb of ram, for me i dont need that much), a 500gb seagate momentus 7200.4 hdd. my macbook performs very well

i also have a incase clear soft touch case, moshi palmguard, and a malware keyboard cover, and a grenade sticker