How do I get mac mini to run faster?

I have had my mac mini for a couple of years and it is starting to fun just a little slower. Was wondering if there is anything I can do to speed things up a bit?

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I remember the halcyon days, when this bad boy ran as fast as I could think. These days, he's like toothless old guy on the bus with his walker in the middle of the aisle. Switching between programs is slow. I look at the beachball way too often. Even when I type in MS Word, the letters sometimes take a second to show up on screen.
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http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html
Robert

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and leopard would run fast and smooth on it , i would go for my trio
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In a broad sense it's probably best to think of the mini as a full desktop computer, simply shrunk down to a small size - that way you'll get the idea of how good it is rather than risk the impression that it's small size is in any real way indicative of it's performance. It isn't.
The new 2.0GHz mini is very close in performance to the original dual processor G5 computer (advertised as the fastest desktop on earth when it was released in 2003). Leaving aside the advertising hype, it was (and remains) an incredibly powerful system in very extensive use in video, image and publishing industries. Given the mini has as much raw power, just a slower hard drive and no internal expansion options, you can see that it is, in it's own right, a very capable system.
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There should be absolutely no problem with Leopard when it is released, though of course it isn't possible to give a definitive statement on it since as yet Leopard is still in development. However, at this time developer builds are being run on existing minis of lower specification, and historically Apple have typically ensured new OS versions are backwards compatible with older hardware platforms - certainly recent ones. Given the newly updated mini has just been announced and is likely to remain on sale for some time as a result without further change, and Leopard is due in a couple of months, it in highly improbable the mini won't run it, and run it well.
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