On 04/10/12 15:54, Gareth France 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. > > Thanks > Gareth > You could try simply installing the lubuntu desktop, this will then retain the advantages of ubuntu in terms of say software centre, apt- repositories etc, but use the lxde desktop which is less resource hungry. Plus you won't have to re-install everything.
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