Pentium 4-M Poor Performance

I have a Dell C640, Pentium 4-M 2G running Debian Sid and kernel 2.6.7-rc3. I'm trying to figure out if the system is running slower than it actually should. The primary datum I have so far is that it takes about 15 minutes to rebuild the kernel, longer than on a slower desktop system I have. I'

Pentium 4-M Poor Performance

I have a Dell C640, Pentium 4-M 2G running Debian Sid and kernel 2.6.7-rc3. I'm trying to figure out if the system is running slower than it actually should. The primary datum I have so far is that it takes about 15 minutes to rebuild the kernel, longer than on a slower desktop system I have. I'