On 4 October 2012 15:54, Gareth France <[email protected]> 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.
Try chromium browser to see if that is better. FF can be processor hungry. Choosing the right apps may be more important than the distribution. sudo apt-get install chromium-browser Colin -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
