Please be specific. What type of laptop do you have? Have you looked for your laptop at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LaptopTestingTeam
Some people have had problems with their laptops being slow if they use the generic kernel. To see what your kernel is open a terminal and type uname -a Please tell me what kernel you are using and if you have a dual processor. -- very slow edgy when no noetwork https://launchpad.net/bugs/69941 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs