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

[Gareth France]

On 04/10/12 17:47, Tony Pursell wrote:
>
>
> On 4 October 2012 17:07, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com 
> <mailto:clanlaw at googlemail.com>> wrote:
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>     On 4 October 2012 17:04, Tony Pursell <ajp at princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk
>     <mailto:ajp at princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk>> wrote:
>     >
>     >
>     > On 4 October 2012 16:12, Tyler J. Wagner <tyler at tolaris.com
>     <mailto:tyler at tolaris.com>> wrote:
>     >>
>     >> On 2012-10-04 16:05, Liam Proven wrote:
>     >> > On 4 October 2012 15:54, Gareth France
>     <gareth.france at gmail.com <mailto:gareth.france at gmail.com>> wrote:
>     >> >> Both have the Pentium P6200 processor.
>     >> >>
>     >> > Unfortunately, Intel is rather addicted to selling cheap,
>     crippled
>     >> > CPUs which have been hobbled to fit a low price point by
>     disabling
>     >> > most of their onboard cache memory. This dramatically reduces
>     >> > performance.
>     >>
>     >> Wow. Checking on that CPU, I can't believe it is still being sold:
>     >>
>     >>
>     >>
>     http://ark.intel.com/products/50176/Intel-Pentium-Processor-P6200-3M-Cache-2_13-GHz
>     >>
>     >> It doesn't even have VT-x!
>     >>
>     >> I'm sorry, Gareth, but I have no suggestions for you. Consider
>     using Gnome
>     >>
>     >> 2 or XFCE.
>     >
>     >
>     > In my 2006 vintage desktop I only have one of these
>     >
>     >
>     http://ark.intel.com/products/27511/Intel-Pentium-D-Processor-805-2M-Cache-2_66-GHz-533-MHz-FSB
>     >
>     > with 2GB memory and integrated ATI Radeon Express 200 graphics
>     and it does
>     > run Unity 3D Ok, but AV performance has always been a bit poor.
>
>     Surely browsing whilst playing music is ok though.  Almost anything
>     should be able to cope with that.
>
> I don't listen to a lot of music, but you are right, music plays OK, 
> even with my FF having at least 20 tabs!  But video is poor in Ubuntu 
> using VLC.  It was OK in Widows last time I tried using the movie 
> player that came with it.
>
> Tony
>
>
My music plays fine but every now and then there's a gap, it happens 
infrequently enough to convince you it's corrupt mp3s but it's my 
collection from when I used to DJ, I know it's good. When playing video 
it doesn't skip but it makes firefox grey out a lot at times.
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