How to improve Unity Performance?

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Published on 2010-10-10T15:03:46Z Indexed on 2011/06/22 8:31 UTC
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I installed ubuntu netbook edition on my netbook* expecting to get the best performance out of it, but apparently, that didn't turn out.
Unity is a bit slow on it, and when I click on Files and folders it takes a while to load the respective interface and the bar at the top disappears and then loads in.

Is this expected? Is there anything I can do to improve the performance? Is this problem specific to my netbook?

*Netbook info:
Acer - Aspire One
1.6 GHz Intel Atom Processor
1 GB RAM Memory
Intel GMA 950 graphics card

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