How do I speed up my MacBook Pro 3,1 (2007)

I have a MacBook Pro 3,1 (year: 2007) running on OS 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard) and a 2.2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor. It has a 1.5 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM with a bus speed of 800 MHz. It is still in good running condition and I am reluctant to let go of it. However, given the technology advancement, it is slowing down rapidly and I would very much like to revive its operating capabilities and give it a bit of a new life.
Does anyone have any advice as to what I could do to make it run faster? Given its age, I am not looking to spend massive amounts of money on it, perhaps changing its RAM capacity to increase it, or anything I could use to speed it up.

So would this be the 15":
http://lowendmac.com/2007/15-in-macbook-pro-mid-2007/
or the 17"?:
http://lowendmac.com/2007/17-in-macbook-pro-mid-2007/
"requires Mac OS X 10.4.9 Tiger or later
Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopardcompatibility
Grand Central Dispatch is supported.
64-bit operation is supported.
OpenCL is supported.
OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion compatibility"
AirPlay Mirroring is not supported.
AirDrop is not supported.
Power Nap is not supported."
In both instances Low End Mac says:
"RAM: 2 GB, expandable to 6 GB using PC2-5300 DDR2 RAM"
You could also do this:
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/internal_storage/SSD/Mercury_Electra_3G_Solid_Sta te
That would speed it up considerably but at the 3 GB/s rate.
You should upgrade to Lion or Mountain Lion, they might be hard to find.

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