Put in a faster hard drive. Every little bit helps. Turn off disk sleep, at least when on mains power.
Check the House of Hardware Hacking Horrors
Another way: get the fastest Compact Flash card or IBM Microdrive you can find, and put it in a PCMCIA adapter. Then use that as your virtual memory/RAM Doubler scratch space, and/or a boot disk.
Having scratch space on a separate drive from your OS and apps should theoretically provide a speed boost. If this is the only use for the drive, it doesn't need to be large. A 64MB CF for VM should do nicely
Having a CF boot drive would make your battery last longer too. You could even replace the internal HD with a CF if you can source the right adapter. Mmmm, silence ....
Check the House of Hardware Hacking Horrors
Another way: get the fastest Compact Flash card or IBM Microdrive you can find, and put it in a PCMCIA adapter. Then use that as your virtual memory/RAM Doubler scratch space, and/or a boot disk.
Having scratch space on a separate drive from your OS and apps should theoretically provide a speed boost. If this is the only use for the drive, it doesn't need to be large. A 64MB CF for VM should do nicely
Having a CF boot drive would make your battery last longer too. You could even replace the internal HD with a CF if you can source the right adapter. Mmmm, silence ....