Sorry for the delay.
I removed most of my ram, leaving 8 GB in the system and booted Ubuntu 12.10. I ran "time sudo apt-get update" and it completed in 17.106 seconds.
@Mark Vels it appears that I owe you one. You nailed it. The Ram size seems to impact the performance of the system.
I am updating to Ubuntu 13.04 to see if the problem is corrected.
Sorry for the delay.
I removed most of my ram, leaving 8 GB in the system and booted Ubuntu 12.10. I ran "time sudo apt-get update" and it completed in 17.106 seconds.
@Mark Vels it appears that I owe you one. You nailed it. The Ram size seems to impact the performance of the system.
I am updating to Ubuntu 13.04 to see if the problem is corrected.