Re. Upgrading Macbook Aluminium 2008 advice

I'm looking to upgrade my Macbook Aluminium with the following specs:
13-inch, Aluminum, Late 2008
Processor 2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
Memory 2 GB 1067 MHz DDR3
Graphics NVIDIA GeForce 9400M 256 MB
Serial Number W8917RDN8QR
Software Mac OS X Lion 10.7.2 (11C74)
Ideally I want at least 500gb of memory space and 4gb ram. I'm looking to have the work done in an Apple reseller, Jigsaw, in Nottingham. They offer Hitachi Travelstar 7K750 750GB SATA II 7200RPM 2.5" Internal Hard Drive or Western Digital Scorpio Blue 500GB Internal Hard Drive 500 rpm. To me the specs seem much better for about £30 less with the Hitachi option, am I right to think this way or are there other reliability considerations etc.? I'd be keen to hear any advice regarding this upgrade and any detrimental affects it could have.
Thanks a lot for your help in advance,
Chris.

Personally if I were going to upgrade the hard drive, I'd go with a Western Digital Scorpio Black drive, as they come with a 5 year warranty vs 3 years (at least in the US they do). If the HItachi is cheaper, with more capacity and speed, I'd probably opt for that one.
Good plan to go to 4GB memory. A number of people have reported unsatisfactory performance at 2GB, which becomes satisfactory at 4GB. Normally recommend Crucial or Samsung memory, however, there are other brands that can work. If you start getting kernel panics, you'll know whatever memory they installed is a problem.

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The center you went to was incorrect when they said you have to upgrade to each operating system. You need to be at Snow Leopard in order to access the App store to download Mountain Lion. You don't have to install Lion to get to Mountain Lion. See this Apple page on this.

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