Is this "one of those things" that happens as you get older? To my own surprise, I've drifted into the "can't deal with the boom-boom music on the radio" zone just as my parents did in their 30s.. So will "new shinies are boring" be next? I better start stocking up on Apple gear ;-)
I'd love if macs were not so designed to 'throw away and buy new'. That's just the steve way though.
That might be because I'm getting older, or because the difference from one generation to the next is less impressive than it used to be, or both...
But SSD, yes, that's one development I wouldn't want to be without. The speed up is incredible. I'm thinking of retrofitting my "ancient" laptop with one.
For the longest time I had a crappy K5 based system with 64Mb of RAM running Slackware when all my friends had Pentium 2's and whatever OS ran Quake at the time.
Oh, and I used a pizza box for the "case".
Whatever works for what you're doing.
I will admit though, I lusted over an SGI O2.