ubuntu takes too much cpu intel® Celeron(R) CPU 900 @ 2.20GHz

[hi675445]

ubuntu takes to much cpu and fan spin on intel® Celeron(R) CPU 900 @ 2.20GHz laptop it a grate pc it run windows 7 better than ubuntu and when i play youtube video it goes in to the 50 i expect it to be about in the 20 this leads in to programs bugging out and not working the way it sound that why i use mint it takes less power

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[Daniel Letzeisen (dtl131)]

The Flash plugin is very CPU-intensive, even when playing low-res video.

[hi675445 (hi675445)]

ubuntu takes too much cpu intel® Celeron(R) CPU 900 @ 2.20GHz not just flash the hole OS not god it a now pc no reason why it sould take loads of power

[Ken Sharp (kennybobs)]

Have you looked in top to see which applications are doing this?

Have you tried disabling desktop compositing such as Compiz?

The OS will try to use what it sees as available on the system.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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