Some questions about the switch to Unity in 11.04

[Tom H]

On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 12:38 AM, Cristopher Thomas <crisnoh at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 07:25, Anthony Papillion <papillion at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 2. What kind of performance hit can we reasonably expect? I'm running
>> older hardware (1.6Ghz dual core AMD Sempron with 3GB memory). Will I
>> need to abandon Ubuntu or will my hardware man up and make it?
>
> The idea is that the environment should scale to what your hardware
> can support.  If Unity absolutely won't fly, it's back to default
> Gnome and dual-panels for you, from what I've read.

I meant to say that in my earlier reply.

I have a VM of Natty where I can't run unity so it defaults to a
maverick non-unity interface.