I say yes, absolutely. I have three, one for my OS, one for my games, and one for temp files, swap, and virtual machines. It makes such a HUGE difference. I also bought one to put in my work laptop, and it's slower than your machine. (I have a Core i5 M520, dual core with HT at 2.4GHz. The third one in my main machine was a failed attempt to get one for my laptop. OCZ drives work poorly in laptops, in case you need to know.) SSDs make such a huge difference in boot time, app load time, and general responsiveness, I highly recommend them, no matter your machine.