Up grading to ML for MB aluminum

I have the aluminum MB that first came out, and I'm currently running SL on it. I also have a late 2010 MBA running ML that I use. Please let me know if I should upgrade my MB, or it is more a hassle (slow-down).
This is of course assuming that I can upgrade my MB successfully, being that I still get this annoying "The product distribution file could not be verified. It may be damaged or was not signed". --> I'm dealing with this in a separate discussion...:-(

Although... while the Core 2 Duo is getting a bit old (with Intel having just released their 2nd generation "i" series mobile processors)... your machine with 8GB of RAM and a Seagate Momentus XT hybird drive shouldn't be "sluggish". Are you running CPU intensive tasks? Just wondering if something else might be going on.

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Hello bzclown,
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