Just comment on Robbie's observation that only the home-screen (netbook-launcher) is slow, this is because the launcher uses GL, and there seems to be a driver issue on these systems. Any gl program is slow (glxgears performance is also pretty bad), when you use firefox, X no longer needs to update the gl window, so performance shoots back up.
Just comment on Robbie's observation that only the home-screen (netbook-launcher) is slow, this is because the launcher uses GL, and there seems to be a driver issue on these systems. Any gl program is slow (glxgears performance is also pretty bad), when you use firefox, X no longer needs to update the gl window, so performance shoots back up.