Upgrading my black macbook? Worth it?

I plan on throwing a SSD and 4GB of RAM in it. It's got the 2.2 GHz Intel C2D, so that's a pretty peppy processor. My question is would throwing $250 into this laptop be a waste, or do you think this will be worth the $250?
I guess another way of putting it would be: $250 for an SSD based laptop w/ 4GB RAM and 2.2GHz Core 2 Duo or (sell the lappy for $500) and find a better computer for under $800?

Just a word of caution... since it is a Black MacBook... I would make sure it can use 4g of memory. Some of the earlier MacBooks were limited. If you put 4gb in them you would only be able to use a portion of that memory. Look at the helpful answer by frederic1943 in this discussion https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2746976?threadID=2746976
Hope this helps.

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    USB Device: IR Receiver, apple_vendor_id, 0x8242, 0xfd120000 / 4
    USB Device: Built-in iSight, apple_vendor_id, 0x8507, 0xfd110000 / 3

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    13. My wife likes the MacBook very much after a morning of use. She maintains the Black MacBook is cool looking and more professional looking than the White and pleased she chose the Black.
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    Update to my item 4 as there were some typo errors in it (sorry about that).
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