Solid State Drive in MacBook Pro

Hey everyone. I have a Macbook pro that I bought in April ,06 2.33 ghz and 2g of memory. I was just wondering, can and how could I put a SSD into my MacBook pro instead of my stock hard drive. What would this accomplish? As well, what are other alternatives than using the regular hard drive on my mac? I pretty much just want boot times to be incredibly fast and have my computer be a speed demon overall.
Thanks
Jake Speyer

Jbspeyer wrote:
I pretty much just want boot times to be incredibly fast and have my computer be a speed demon overall.
What I've read about SSDs is that random access is faster but sustained access is slower. It isn't a panacea. You might want to read the Ars Technica speed test of the MacBook Air with SSD. Here is an excerpt:
But what we're really interested in are the disk tests, as those tell us exactly how well the SSD performs against the 4200rpm drive in the HDD model. The overall disk test scores aren't much different—29.37 on the HDD and 34.30 on the Air. But the SSD performs a fair amount worse than the HDD model when it comes to sequential read and write tests...*the summary is: the SSD does worse in sequential disk tests and writing in general, but spanks the HDD in random disk tests and reading from the disk*... The SSD fared poorly against the HDD model when it came to encoding a 60MB QuickTime movie to iPod format—write speeds aren't high on the SSD. Unzipping the WebKit archive, on the other hand, was very quick...
I don't really pay attention to boot times since I only restart maybe once a week. That would make my "boot time" one second, because I just open the lid and it's ready to go.
If you want to spend a lot more money for a lot less disk space, I think all you have to do is get an SSD that fits in the bay. But of course you can't do it yourself without voiding the warranty.

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