On 4 October 2012 15:54, Gareth France <gareth.fra...@gmail.com> wrote: > I was thrilled when I recently got a brand new laptop for the 2nd time in my > life. It's a budget model but I figured with 4Gb DDR3 and a 500Gb HDD it was > a massive improvement over my ageing dell which had only a 60Gb drive. The > new machine was a catalogue purchase where they listed it as simply having a > Pentium processor. I joked at the time that this either means they were too > lazy to type i3 or that it comes with a processor from 1995! It is a Packard > Bell EasyNote TK85. > > Little did I know how right I was! The performance is a joke! Playing music > in Banshee while browsing web pages leads to light skipping. Using certain > sites firefox greys out and freezes every 30 seconds or so! It's just not > coping. > > I never ran Windows on it, wiping the drive before it completed the first > boot was extremely satisfying, however having realised a friend's Acer 5733z > is literally identical, all bar cosmetic changes to the trackpad, power > button etc, it got me thinking. They haven't complained about anything on > their machine. Both have the Pentium P6200 processor. > > I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 32 bit on there at the moment. I was wondering if > someone could suggest a distro which is less podgy to install and see if > that works any better.
It might be worth selecting unity-2d at logon time (click on the gear next to the user name in the logon screen and select unity-2d) to see if that helps. In fact it probably will not as you are probably already using unity-2d as the graphics h/w likely does not support 3d anyway. Worth a go though. Otherwise, as others have suggested, try Lubuntu. Colin -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
