I haven't looked at laptops for a while but I imagine 2g is pretty fast for a laptop although  2g isn't that fast these days for a desktop ( hal2 is 1.6g).You might be abe to give Bryce a higher than normal priority setting, but if it were me I'd leave that alone.   If Bryce took advantage of the dual core you might get more performance but  it doesn't. 

I think the less tasks running on the systray the better.

Again  a very nice setup!