[ale] Laptops and Linux

[Brian D. Pitts]

Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org> writes:
>ight now I'm on a Lenovo (IBM) 3000
>N100.  Core 2 Duo, 512Meg Ram, 1.66Ghz and it's killing me.  Open Firefox, 
>Amarok and an OpenOffice Spreadsheet and I can grind it to a halt for 10 
>minutes.

That's a system I would drool over. I get much better performance on hardware
generations behind that. Have you tried using the sysstat tools to determine
where the bottleneck is?

-Brian

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