Greetings: A couple of months ago I bought a ThinkPad A 31, it's one of IBM's high end models, with a 1.8 Ghz Pentium4 M, and 256 MB of DDR RAM. However I am not quite happy with the performance that I am getting out of this system.
The system's performance can't even compete with my desktop system, which is a Pentium III 600 Mhz with 128 MB SDRAM. This is my first notebook computer, before this I never owned a notebook, so I don't know, weather it is common for laptops to be so slow or not. I have never used any other OS on my laptop, other than Debian, so I don't know how the performance would be, using other distros, or other OSes. However it seems strange to me, that my laptop system is so slow. I have heard that Debian's default installation, is a safe one, which doesn't take advantage of many of the system's bells and whistles. I wonder, are there any things that I can do to somehow tweak my system, and make it faster? It seems to me that I am not getting the most out of my system. Cheers -- /* My name is Jehovah. I have a special plan to save the universe, but because of heavenly security reasons I can't tell you what that plan is. Your's just going to put your faith in me, because I see the picture and you don't. You know I'm good, because I told you so. If you don't believe me, I'll throw you on my enemies list and throw you in a pit where Infernal Revenue Service will audit your taxes for eternity*/ --RMS Aryan Ameri