Could you please confirm that your cpu is this one: http://ark.intel.com/products/50176/Intel-Pentium-Processor-P6200-3M-Cache-2_13-GHz
I have ubuntu running on a t6500 (which in terms of passmark benchmarks is very similar) and it runs very well. While intel at the low end do turn things off. while the processor may not be as powerfull it may be a bug/glitch.does the live version off a distro(usb stick) produce the same results-if 12.04 is lagging then windows 7 will definitely lag(assuming it came with 7, or xp) even worse-since it has a gazillion of services to start. you could try xubuntu as well to see whether that works or debian- if I am correct both use .deb format so most of the ubuntu packages may work. If you still have a restore partition to windows 7(or cd's) it might be worth installing just to make sure that it is the performance of the processor and not a bug from the 12.04 install-you can always delete it later. On 4 October 2012 16:05, Liam Proven <lpro...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 4 October 2012 15:54, Gareth France <gareth.fra...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I was thrilled when I recently got a brand new laptop for the 2nd time > in my > > life. It's a budget model but I figured with 4Gb DDR3 and a 500Gb HDD it > was > > a massive improvement over my ageing dell which had only a 60Gb drive. > The > > new machine was a catalogue purchase where they listed it as simply > having a > > Pentium processor. I joked at the time that this either means they were > too > > lazy to type i3 or that it comes with a processor from 1995! It is a > Packard > > Bell EasyNote TK85. > > > > Little did I know how right I was! The performance is a joke! Playing > music > > in Banshee while browsing web pages leads to light skipping. Using > certain > > sites firefox greys out and freezes every 30 seconds or so! It's just not > > coping. > > > > I never ran Windows on it, wiping the drive before it completed the first > > boot was extremely satisfying, however having realised a friend's Acer > 5733z > > is literally identical, all bar cosmetic changes to the trackpad, power > > button etc, it got me thinking. They haven't complained about anything on > > their machine. Both have the Pentium P6200 processor. > > > > I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 32 bit on there at the moment. I was wondering > if > > someone could suggest a distro which is less podgy to install and see if > > that works any better. > > > 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. > > It's a false economy - they cost as much to make as upmarket chips, as > they are the same silicon with some features present but disabled. > It's part of a stepped marketing model where sales of lots of cheap > crippled products sold for a tiny profit are balanced by very > overpriced premium products at vastly inflated prices and very high > profit margins. > > It's a filthy tactic which is unfair to consumers, but Intel is damned > near a monopoly and what can you do? > > It started with the 486SX, which was a 486DX with the floating-point > unit turned off. It's made them billions. > > For years, I used AMD or Cyrix kit from preference but they are no > longer really competitive except at the very cheap end - the low-end > AMD chips are not crippled, as Celerons and "Pentium Dual Core" ones > are. > > Seriously, your best bet might be to overclock the chip. These cheap > crippled chips often overclock very well. > > Or, teach yourself some basic maintenance skills, buy an uncrippled > chip & swap the CPU over. Google to see if this is possible. > > As for lighter-weight distros, I am not sure they will help much - you > have lots of RAM and possibly a competent GPU too - but you could try > Lubuntu. > > > > -- > Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile > Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven > MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven > Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ >
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