Upgrading to a slower system..

[mobarobber]

Hi,

I updated my hardware from an AMD 2200/512MB sytem to an Intel Dual Core 2.8/1GB RAM. I was running windows and Ubuntu 11.10 on the system before and both were running just fine. Now as I updated HW, Windows being windows would need to be formatted. I just did not have the patience to sit through it and decided to format and install Ubuntu on the entire 160GB drive. Everything worked out ok, except that the new system is actually slower than the old system and hangs up a LOT! Any ideas to help me here? I have updated the system, so that should not be an issue...

[oldfred]

A lot of performance is based on video. What did you change on video?

Changing from 512 to 1GB should help, of course more memory is better. My laptop dual core has 1.5GB and only occasionally is slow so I can tell it is using swap. I am usually using Firefox, Thunderbird & OO all that the same time and those are all three large apps. And I am running 64bit which really should have more memory, but I want it to be the same as my desktop.

#check these when slow in terminal
#to see memory/swap use
free -m
#to see apps running - q to exit
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