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I think you need to take a look at your needs and budget.
I went through a similar thought process with my MBP 17" mid 2009 about six months ago. I started with Daisydisc as a way to clean up backups and other space-occupying files. I was pleased with the speed bump that I got by swapping out my internal drive for a 480 SSD and by upgrading my memory to 8 GB. It seemed like a reasonable price for the improvement. Of course, 3 weeks later I started getting errors about my battery. This led to another expense.
As I started using Lightroom more extensively, I got more and more frustrated by the time it took to apply filters, presets and other manipulations.
I considered upgrading the machine to a faster Mac Pro of about the same era - but was concerned about the graphic output.
I am typing this on my new rMBP late-2013 (which supports multi stream thunderbolt 2.0 for 60 Hz 4k resolution). The speed improvement is wonderful, and while I miss the 17" screen, I love the ability to output to a 4k monitor.
The 17" MBP still is getting use as my office computer for word processing, Devonthink (database), and web browsing, but I'm not sure that I needed the performance increase of the SSD in that application. I probably would have been wise to just increase the memory and save the other $ towards the upgraded machine.
YMMV.
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