upgrade to SSD or new MBP

[apolloa]

SSD will help in Loading times, RAM will help in performance. But really most of the game is depending on CPU and GPU, which it doesn't really sound like your lacking in with that i7 and 330M.

Yeah that's what I thought too. I plan to reload OSX over Xmas from scratch and may get Windows 7 too, see how it goes from then. I could fancy a quad core i7 iMac but then I loose portability, well lying around the house anyway.
Trouble is I'm winging away but I had to totally restore my OSX partition after I, cough ahem, kinda deleted it installing bootcamp haha!! So I THINK I may be getting a performance hit cause of this.

 

[InfinitySquared]

Very few applications require more than 4GB of memory. That's only going to be useful when running multiple memory-intensive applications together, or running professional applications like Final Cut.

Don't get me wrong, 8GB can be very useful, but it's not going to have an impact on your computer's performance in Starcraft.

Starcraft is an unusually CPU-heavy game (as are most RTS games), so that will matter, and, like all games, the GPU is the thing that makes or breaks them.

More RAM will have no impact, and an SSD could at best have an impact on loading times.

 

[SeaOtter]

If speed and budget are concerns, why not go with a WD Velociraptor HDD? 10000 rpm drive will be plenty fast enough and should compare favorably with all but the highest end SSD drives. Plus you can get about 3 times the storage capacity as an SSD for the same money. $250 gets you 450 GB in HDD for this drive while the same money will only get you 120 GB for the average SSD drive.

I imagine that the added speed of the HDD will affect battery life, but it sounds as if you need a new battery anyway.

Just a suggestion. I believe that's what I'm about to do.

 

[apolloa]

If speed and budget are concerns, why not go with a WD Velociraptor HDD? 10000 rpm drive will be plenty fast enough and should compare favorably with all but the highest end SSD drives. Plus you can get about 3 times the storage capacity as an SSD for the same money. $250 gets you 450 GB in HDD for this drive while the same money will only get you 120 GB for the average SSD drive.

I imagine that the added speed of the HDD will affect battery life, but it sounds as if you need a new battery anyway.

Just a suggestion. I believe that's what I'm about to do.

Are you speaking of a 2.5" laptop HDD or the desktop 3.5" HDD? As far as I thought velociraptors only come in desktop 3.5" sizes?

Nope you are right, just googled it, didn't know they made them in dinky size lol. Need to watch the heat though but 3.6ms access time is damn good but that's on SATA 3 6gb.