[ubuntu-uk] Poor performance with Ubuntu on my laptop

[Colin Law]

On 4 October 2012 15:54, Gareth France <gareth.france at 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.

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