I don't have much to add, except that I have the exact same issue here. I'm on a MSI Wind U100 (Atom 1.6Ghz, 1.5G RAM) with an Apple Airport wifi card. Tool tips take almost a second to appear, and the driver for my wifi card took almost half an hour to download and install. Firefox feels snappy enough, but it does take more than its fair share of time to load. Ditto with the webcam. I've used Win 7, Mac OS 10.6.4, and the previous version of Ubuntu Netbook Remix (was it 9.04? I've forgot), and Ubuntu 10.10 is by far the slowest of them all.
I don't have much to add, except that I have the exact same issue here. I'm on a MSI Wind U100 (Atom 1.6Ghz, 1.5G RAM) with an Apple Airport wifi card. Tool tips take almost a second to appear, and the driver for my wifi card took almost half an hour to download and install. Firefox feels snappy enough, but it does take more than its fair share of time to load. Ditto with the webcam. I've used Win 7, Mac OS 10.6.4, and the previous version of Ubuntu Netbook Remix (was it 9.04? I've forgot), and Ubuntu 10.10 is by far the slowest of them all.