Macbook Core 2 Duo Excel 2008 Not Responding

I have a Macbook Core 2 duo with Snow Leopard. I have Microsoft Office 2008 and recently my computer is running slow, but now excel will not load at all. It shows the color wheel and then the "application does not respond". What should I do

Thanks for all the helpful answers. I mainly use the Korg legacy collection synths, and a variety of Waves plugins, and my current macbook can run quite a few instances of the synths and plugins, so I guess based on the information given the base mac mini should be able to handle my projects ok. As has been mentioned, I guess the best thing to do is to try it.
Thanks again,
Dan

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