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In the last time I was very dissatisfied with the overall system performance of my Sony Vaio VPCEB3Z1E Laptop and the installed Ubuntu 12.04. For example it took more than 10 seconds to start firefox or the chromium browser. Even the installation of new software packages via apt-get was slow. The main performance impact was caused by the installed Samsung SATA drive which was not able to read more than 80 MB per second.
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