making a 2.93ghz, 4 gig ram MBP run at its fastest

well I bought a MBP 17" 2.93 ghz, 4. gig ram, 320gig 7200rpm on may the 19th... so obviously i feel a little let down... that Apple upgraded the CPU speed slightly... and made a adjustments to the HD size... so what can I and other let down apple customers do to speed up their MBP speed...? i am very concerned about this.... hahah not really but seriously what services and such do you disable and change to get the most out of your system? I am new to Macs... so I wondering what all technical stuff I can do... also I have OnyX installed and I have seen this forum New macbook pro Overclocked to 3.15Ghz - Mac Forums which details some use of this OnyX to improve the performance of MBPs look on pg 2, other than that... what suggestions can you smart MBP users give?

Thanks.... ;D

Throw in a SSD.. OCZ Vertex..