Comment 5 for bug 555595

After a few days of using -16 kernel and 2.6.34 kernel and installing all the lucid updates, I cannot currently reproduce the problem when going back to -19. Putting the bug back to NEW. Previously it was quite immediately seen as slower behavior in Firefox and Ubuntu Software Center.

Meanwhile I have tweaked a couple of stuff like removed hal/hal-info packages which are not needed anymore on lucid, and I'm not sure if those, in addition to the updates, have anything to do with the problem disappearing.

It's not to say that Intel wouldn't be relatively slow in lucid (and before) - it's not blazingly fast and I'm not sure if there is some specific part to blame or not. For example compiz cube rotation is easily a bit jerky.

(another thing to note is that Ubuntu Software Center seems somewhat sluggish even in this "normal" situation)