ThinkPad A31 Too Slow

[Aryan Ameri <a.ameri@linuxiran.org>]

Greetings:

A couple of months ago I bought a ThinkPad A 31, it's one of IBM's high 
end models, with a 1.8 Ghz Pentium4 M, and 256 MB of DDR RAM. However I 
am not quite happy with the performance that I am getting out of this 
system. 

The system's performance can't even compete with my desktop system, 
which is a Pentium III 600 Mhz with 128 MB SDRAM. This is my first 
notebook computer, before this I never owned a notebook, so I don't 
know, weather it is common for laptops to be so slow or not.

I have never used any other OS on my laptop, other than Debian, so I 
don't know how the performance would be, using other distros, or other 
OSes. However it seems strange to me, that my laptop system is so slow. 

I have heard that Debian's default installation, is a safe one, which 
doesn't take advantage of many of the system's bells and whistles. I 
wonder, are there any things that I can do to somehow tweak my system, 
and make it faster? It seems to me that I am not getting the most out 
of my system.

Cheers
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Aryan Ameri